On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:04:07 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 10:29:17 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) > wrote: > <snip>
>> M$ does what it thinks the people want, and they pretty much are correct. >> They would sell dog sh*t as long people would buy it. > However, I must disagree with the foregoing. > M$ does *not* provide what "the people want"; M$ decides what the people > should want, and then spends and spends [an advertising budget bigger > than IBM's R&D allocations] to make certain that the people want what M$ > wants the people to want. > If JC's daddy could find an endless source of dog shit, and if his serfs > could figure out how to store it, ship it, etc., and his brainwashing > experts could come up with a marketing plan, then M$ would do its best > to have people standing in line outside stores -- eager to get their own > box of M$ dog shit on the official day of release. > Microsoft did not "earn" market share through producing decent software > that people used and recommended to others. Microsoft bought the > market, bought PC magazine reviews with advertsing money, etc etc etc. > If the software had been competitive and honestly better than what was > available, then that would have been fair. But M$ software has never > been "better"; it has only been advertised better and shoved down the > throats of computer users better. I agree 100% and without the smallest reservation. ;-) > l.d. > P.S. Reference above to "JC's daddy" is not blasthemy on my part; BG > actually did name his first born J.C. -- Jennifer Cathline -- and I > think it wasn't an accident. Here, I have to say I think you are probably correct also. Just thought I'd drop in before the war starts. <G> - Clarence Verge. -- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL.