On 07 Mar 2003 08:51:05 -0400, Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 03:37, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > And just what does any of this have to do with MDK? > > I don't particularly care what will, or will not install on XP. This > > isn't the place for it. > > > > Ric > Nothing. And everything. > > BTW, it was supposed to go to the OT list. A careless click did it all. > > In the 90s, when OS/2 version 3 was launched and NT 3.5 was still > vaporware, I read somewhere that software companies were massively > commiting suicide by developing only for Winblows and not for OS/2. At > that time I learned about the new DOS version and Lotus 123 story. > > Companies like Borland (Quattro Pro, Paradox, TurboC, TurboPascal), > WordPerfect, Lotus (123, WordPro, Organizer) and Ashton-Tate (dBase) > kept developing only for Winblows, while M$ kept hiding secrets API that > were needed for program to work in an acceptable way. And every new > version of Winblows made those program behave even weirder or slower. > > That article was prophetic. Those company are gone, downsized to > molecular level or serving a niche market. Also OS/2 is gone. > > History is repeating again. Companies are not developing for Linux > because it doesn't have a significant market share in the desktop arena > and instead they kept developing for Winblows. > > Meanwhile M$ is doing everything it can to "show" people that competing > software quality is inferior. And if they can't, then they do something > to make people life harder installing the competing packages. > > Could you imagine the position of Linux if there were the products I > already mentioned for this platform? Well, my guess is that right now > would be a massive move from Winblows to Linux. > > It would be the end of this chicken-egg history: companies don't develop > for a platform because there are not enough customers working on it, but > customers don't adopt the platform because there are not enough > application to work with on it. Meanwhile the only winner stay healthy > in the US Northwest coast. > > I would hate going back to Winblows. Right now I make most of my living > with Windows and live happily in Linux. By the end of the year that > sentence will only contains the word Linux. My clients are now open to > make the move. > > Again sorry for posting a "non technical" subject in this list. But it > has a lot to do with Mandrake future as a significant desktop operating > system from the point of view of market share. > > Moving to the OT list.
Is the subject header a reference to the old Microsoft internal slogan, "Windows is not done until Lotus 123 won't run"? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL
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