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to: Joe Barr
from: Geo.
date: 2003-03-05 19:21:38
subject: Re: Egan`s Law

From: "Geo." 

"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.

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