Greg, You are very right about quality. I simply meant that they weren't any worse than MacOS or other proprietary OSes (or RedHat, for that matter). -Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ===================== "Solutions that Work" =====================
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC) [mailto:gregory.thomas@nbc.com] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 6:30 PM To: 'tbutler@uninetsolutions.com'; phil@keenstreet.com.au; SuSE Mailing List Subject: RE: [SLE] Fundamental differences
-----Original Message----- From: Timothy R. Butler [mailto:tbutler@uninetsolutions.com] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:28 PM To: phil@keenstreet.com.au; SuSE Mailing List Subject: RE: [SLE] Fundamental differences
Not exactly greed, IMO. Tell me Phil, what do you do for a living? Now, consider that somewhere along the line someone is paying you to do what you do. Are you being greedy for wanting to be paid? If you aren't, how does this apply to Microsoft (or Apple, Oracle, Sun, or even SuSE - they offer the proprietary Applixware, among other things)? Greed would be charging $1,000 for Windows 98.
What's more greedy, trying to force the world to standarize on Win98 at $100 per copy? Or charging $1000 per copy in a free market? I think MS is smart enough to realize that $1000 per copy would encourage too much piracy and would create more opportunity for alternate OSes. So, I'd say the first scenario is more crafty and much more greedy.
But MS blew it anyway because the quality can't even match the $100 price. If the quality were there I don't think Linux, *BSD, BEOS, or any other OS would be doing as well as they are.
Greg
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