From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-14 10:12:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A33EE.90900@noplace.com> <3F3B89BE.1090207@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F3B89BE.1090207@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:58:07 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1060880274 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:57:54 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:57:54 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41463 Date: 2003-08-14T12:58:07-04:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > They do not now, nor have they ever, had the only operating system in > the world. Ok Marin, ask your grandmother/mother what operating system they will purchase with their next (first?) PC? If they know what an O/S is, then we can readily guess what their choice would be! ;-) Or, tell me what the store sales guy is going to sell? No difference in answer! At BEST, you _might_ get a choice if you shop at Walmart, where Linux/Lindows are offered. Unless your grandmother/mother had a life in IT, or enjoyed it as a hobby, I can only see one "real choice" emerging as an answer. That says to me "monopoly". Windows today is what once long ago was like "the phone company". > Other capitalists with their own OS's simply have dropped the > ball when it comes to competing with Micro$oft. Hence Micro$oft has the > lion's share of the market, but not the total market. So I'd suggest > that other businesses that own or could develop other operating systems > might just do so successfully and compete effectively with MS iff they > learn what has helped MS get where it has and look for the chinks in the > armor. > > MDC > > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: >> >> Their success? M O N O P O L Y -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg