From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 12:29:48 CST
In <HBC49D.7MM@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, on 03/06/2003
at 03:56 PM, "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> said:
> It is what drives Bill Gates (although some might say he has a
>rather strange idea of what his users "want", nobody would deny that
>he is trying to please them,
I would deny it, and so would many others. m$ has done many things to
maximize sales at the expense of what customers wanted, e.g., running
windows on top of DR-DOS. Bill gates has been extraordinarily
successful at limiting consumer choices and ignoring what they wanted.
>I think it is clear that making everything 8-bit clean HAS to
>happen, whether to comply with new standards, or just to provide a
>working environment within which such new standards can be
>developed.
There we agree.
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