From: "Joe Barr" 

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 19:21:39 +0000, Geo. wrote:

> "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> news:3e6614ad$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> 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.
>
> by your reasoning OS/2 captured a larger share than MacOS did too yet it
> never even came close to the penetration level of Mac.
>
>> 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.
>
> That's not what I said, what I said is your claim is not honest. You make
> a claim similar to claiming that Pirelli tires are outselling goodyear
> tires in retail and that this somehow means there are 10 million Pirelli
> tire owners.
>
> Geo.

The numbers come from IBM.  They are as good or as bad as that.  They are
not my numbers.  I don't really give a damn if you buy them or not.  You
don't realize today that MS is doomed, that everywhere they turn they are
finding Linux, and Linux is winning.  MS has its Sendo, Linux has Motorola.
MS has its butterfly ads for MSN, Linux is running the blade servers on
butterfly.net.  Butterfly net is going to provide online gaming for Sony
PS/2 and PS/3 that MS can only dream about.

So go ahead, disbelieve the numbers all you like.  It really doesn't
matter.  But don't wait too long to jump off that sinking ship.



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