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- From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 12:14:59 -0800
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <83020-823205699@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <4ep6gf$pr4@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor) writes:
-
- >Thinking any single platform proprietary OS can compete with this is
- >sheer folly. Its a standards based world out there, folks, and you
- >just can't get more standard than Windows.
-
- Uh, point of order here. Windows is just as proprietary an OS as
- any other, and much more so than Unix. Or are there other Windows
- suppliers out there - or even licencees - that I haven't heard of?
-
- There's a difference between a standard and a monopoly, even if
- everyone winds up doing the same thing in both cases. A standard
- is agreed upon by a group of users, for their mutual benefit.
- A monopoly is imposed on users by an outside agency, which is
- often acting in no interest but its own and which is answerable
- to no one. The major exception is a government-regulated monopoly
- such as the phone company - a category into which Microsoft
- definitely does not fall.
-
- If I give someone all my money, it might not be because I'm
- generous. He might be pointing a gun at me.
-
- Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
- "IBM is not a necessary evil. IBM is not necessary." -- Ted Nelson
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