From: "Joe Barr" 

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:53:37 +0000, Geo. wrote:

> So you are saying there was choice back in the OS/2 days?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> news:i3686vcc6guqidq8gbp5bip1vsbeh20fn3{at}4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:01:42 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
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>> >Tell me what does "at retail" mean
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>> Choice.
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>>
>>  /m
>>
>>

Not that you are going to accept the facts which are as plain as the nose
on your face, but in the universe where there was a choice, that is to say,
at retail rather than preloaded, OS/2 captured a larger share than did
Windows. That's would be the 10-15 million seats out there then.  And as I
pointed out earlier, at Warpstock 2002, IBM said they still had 3 million
OS/2 seats among their corporate customers.  Rasputin and all that.

To answer your earlier query about whether or not I counted your choice, I
will say no, I did not, because you did not choose.  You took what was
spooned out for you.  Claiming that you would have chosen it anyway is
moot.  Now if you bought Windows to install it, or even if you bought it to
upgrade an earlier version, then yes, you would have been counted.

Stealing a page from Egan's book, let me say that according to Barr's corollary to
W. E. B. DuBois' observation about Negroes, only 10-15% of PC users are
capable of installing an OS to begin with.  Thus the overall percentage of
OS/2 users was a small segement of the PC world to begin with.  For those
content to suckle Microsoft's tit regardless, it doesn't matter.

But to answer your current question directly, there was SOME choice.  None
in the preload market, of course, because of all the reasons you've heard a
million times before.  Which brings us to the moment, and you sit there and
say, hmmm, yeah, MS is all good and honest now that the case is over, and I
sit here and say, George, George, George.  Get a brain.

















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