On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:30 -0300, Alvaro Kuolas wrote:
Mark H. Harris wrote:
On Monday 05 June 2006 20:08, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
People are and should be free to choose what they think is better.
Nope. Take VHS vs. Beta... remember? The market (and free ?thinkers? everywhere chose VHS... Beta was better but we all got stuck with VHS... thank goodness for DVD. Remember Micro-channel? Free ?thinkers? everywhere chose ISA... and the rest of us got stuck with ISA although Microchannel was by far the better technology. Here we go again... *nix is better by a factor of at least 700... and we're all going to get stuck with Windblows because free ?thinkers? everywhere are buying it.... aaauuugh. Windblows must die.
You could license VHS for litlle, but not in the case of Sony Betamax. In this case, the consumers "chose" VHS for it's availability. VHS was more "free" that Beta: for consumers was the availability, for vendors was the possibility of making it.
MCA was the same, closed as Betamax. It was expensive, even a MCA add-on card was expensive (license cost were high).
People "chose" Windows because of it's availability and because it works out-of-the-box.
Today people _don't_ choose Windows it is forced on them. Ever try to order a desktop PC from the major vendors without Windows, you can't. Some choice. Can we take this HIGHLY OT topic to the OT list please. This list is about support of SUSE linux not linux vs. Windows. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com