From: chenrich@monmouth.com (Christopher J. Henrich)
Subject: Re: RFD: rmgroup comp.lang.eiffel, a defunct newsgroup dedicated to a dead non-language
Date: 1996/12/15
Date: 1996-12-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <chenrich-1512961223290001@ppp69.monmouth.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p9ohfy4q6c.fsf@octavian.ics.uci.edu
In article <p9ohfy4q6c.fsf@octavian.ics.uci.edu>, Doug Semler
<dsemler@octavian.ics.uci.edu> wrote (in his .sig line):
>
> If Unix isn't inferior to Windows, then why does the marketplace
> consistently chose Windows over Unix? Are you a socialist who believes
> the marketplace does not make the most optimal choices?
No, I'm a capitalist who believes that people exercise "bounded rationality."
It would take a lot of effort, especially for someone unfamiliar with
computers, to evaluate all the available choices and settle on the best
one. It's easier to go with the "obvious" choice, which may be merely the
choice offered by an eye-catching ad or the choice made by one's neighbor.
--
Christopher J. Henrich
chenrich@monmouth.com
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1996-12-11 0:00 RFD: rmgroup comp.lang.eiffel, a defunct newsgroup dedicated to a dead non-language Anonymous
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Clemens Dumat
1996-12-12 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1996-12-12 0:00 ` William Grosso
1996-12-12 0:00 ` RFD: rmgroup comp.lang.eiffel, a defun Ian Ward
1996-12-13 0:00 ` RFD: rmgroup comp.lang.eiffel, a defunct newsgroup dedicated to a dead non-language Doug Semler
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-17 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-12-13 0:00 ` "Paul E. Bennett"
1996-12-15 0:00 ` Christopher J. Henrich [this message]
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