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From: »Q« on 4 Jul 2010 18:22
In <news:Xns9DA8B72813ADAbearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>,
Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote:

> rotfl <email.franklin(a)yahoo.com.sg> wrote in
> news:7654ebd829b7124cb0fc0931fda6f4dd(a)msgid.frell.theremailer.net:
>
> > But the sad reality is that not all progress is "good". Vista was
> > not good but taken up by huge numbers of people thru vendors
> > pre-loading it and users wanting the latest "thing", believing it
> > sets them apart from neanderthals.
>
> and that is proof that what is not good, the market will kill.

Is that how the super-crashy Windows 95 and 98 came to dominate a
market that had operating systems that didn't crash a few times a day?
It's an interesting question, since a monopoly was formed which has
continued to abuse and distort the market in a host of unethical and
illegal ways all these years since.
From: »Q« on 4 Jul 2010 20:04
In <news:Xns9DABB3ACF4668bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>,
Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote:

> =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= <boxcars(a)gmx.net> wrote in
> news:20100704172207.5fd25014(a)bellgrove.remarqs.net:
>
> > In <news:Xns9DA8B72813ADAbearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>,
> > Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote:

> >> and that is proof that what is not good, the market will kill.
> >
> > Is that how the super-crashy Windows 95 and 98 came to dominate a
> > market that had operating systems that didn't crash a few times a
> > day? It's an interesting question, since a monopoly was formed
> > which has continued to abuse and distort the market in a host of
> > unethical and illegal ways all these years since.
>
> So you lost, get over it.

Nobody lost anything other than freedom, and I'm not surprised to see
you feeling smug enough about that to use it for taunts.

Luckily, thanks in part to actions of the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the
the European Commission, it's tougher for Microsoft to crush freedom in
the marketplace than it has been before. Despite your advice that
people "get over it", the struggle to keep markets operating freely
will probably continue; some people just seem to care a lot about
freedom and are willing to go to great lengths to secure it despite
naysayers such as you.

Happy Fourth of July, Bottoms.
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