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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:45:45 -0700
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george p swanton wrote:
[ ... ]
] People (non-computer science people) dont 'use' operating systems;
] they use applications and a great many of them have trouble with
] those. Operating systems dont 'sell', applications do.
Stop there. Not to be obtuse, but if that's the case, why does
Microsoft advertise Windows 95 and Windows NT at all?
Why didn't OS/2, which could run Windows and DOS applications
(in a lot of ways, better than Windows 95) "fly off the shelves"?
I believe the "applications sell OS's claim" to be more than a
bit naieve... at best, it's a gross oversimplification (one
which IBM and Microsoft and Novell and SCO and ... don't believe).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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