[TriLUG] even more interesting

[Matt Jezorek]

Okay I will shut up. I should have known better then to in any way say MS
was good for the industry ( or used to be good)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Jezorek" <matt at bluelinux.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] even more interesting


> > You're going to have to explain this to me. IMHO, those responsible for
> > making the pc affordable was mostly IBM, who "open sourced" all the
> > hardware schematics and BIOS code for the original PC, creating the
clone
> > market, which has given us commodity PC hardware. It's this intense
> > competition in the hardware market that's really made things cheap.
> > Intel's invention of the micro-processor and discovery of "Moore's Law"
is
> > the frosting on the cake
>
> Yes this is true, the IBM clone did alot of this work as well but what was
> distributed on them.
> MS DOS was easier to use then Unix at the time. Unix was running on the
> mainframes and this and that.
> Now mind you IBM had a DOS too. But IBM DOS  was not as big in my eyes as
> far as usage.  Do you
> think that if DOS was not invented, or any of the MS products where
invented
> would the desktop market
> be as big as it is today? We (the consumer) would be stuck with Unix or
OS2
> i believe it was and I dont think
> the desktop market would be as big.
>
>
>
> > When MS started, the OS was always included for free with a computer.
> > Microsoft has pioneered the OS as main profit center. Their constant
> > increase in cost of the OS (how much is XP now) along with continuous
> > mandatory upgrades seems to me to have driven up the price of a PC, not
> > reduced it.
>
> I am saying that they helped push the pc to the desktop. Back in the day
> when
> Microsoft was a small company before they stole Apples code (in that time
> era)
> Not today.
>
> > Of course, the bundling of the OS and Office by OEM's seems free to
> > consumers, and that give the impression of cheaper computing, but there

> > ain't no such thing as a free lunch. You certainly are paying for this
"PC
> > tax".
>
> But who are we talking about. We are talking about consumers. In the
> consumers eyes
> they are getting a cheaper PC.
>
> >
>
> Matt
>
> P.S. like I said sure would have been marked Flamebait
>
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