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"This isn't always the case. Often, inferior products will win out over superior ones for plenty of reasons, marketing, and price being two prominent ones. That was the case for MS' rise, creating the rise of commodity hardware."

A layman's interpretation, to be sure. If a product is sharply differentiated on price, as was MS Windows vs IBM OS/2 in 1992, they are not comparable products. MS won a much larger market and OS/2 could not successfully differentiate itself from Windows even after it lowered its price. But the time IBM got into gear, MS had a product functionally as good as OS/2 and with a much longer tradition in the market. Bear in mind the consumer's perception is what the consumer treats as reality. You may think something else is better, but the person doing the buying is not thinking like you obviously. No one is going to deliberately buy an inferior offering when given a choice. What the linuxers seem to forget is that they have to educate the consumer as to what is good and what is not so good. When they cannot do that, they curse Microsoft as a demon and vile competitor. The other way of looking at that is that the linuxers are too lazy to do the work required to spread the word or esle they so disrespect the intelligence of the consumer that they do not bother to try. Regardless, they fail and will continue to fail.

Posted by: Bill Weisgerber   Posted on: 03/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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