At 11:48 AM 8/30/1999 -0500, Signal 11 wrote: >Maybe his actions speak louder than his words. Maybe he doesn't have to try to >convince the other 99% of the population - it ought to be immediately obvious >of the superiority of free software /based only on the result/. No explanation >necessary. Maybe the Amiga should have won the "war" because it was a technically superior platform, which was immediately obvious to anyone who looked at the facts. That theory that "The best product always wins" doesn't hold up in the real world. You need to be the best /and convince people of that fact/... You can have the best mousetrap in the world... if the guys who make decisions think it sucks, it doesn't get deployed.
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