Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Dave> If the orginization were not invloded in promotions, and makings > Dave> CD-Rom, they could get back to simply working towards the > Dave> orginazation of a quality product. Thats their purpose as far > Dave> as I'm concerned, not worring about if CD makers can keep their > Dave> stock up to date. > > Then you are naive. The best product (Betamax,apple) can die > out if absolutely no effort is made to promote it. And it is not as > if we decided on a technically inferior naming scheme.
Actually, there was a third standard - Video 2000 by Philips. Here at philips, it is said to be even better than Betamax. Then why doesn't the world know about it? Well, it is rumored here that when the first video devices were marketed there were only few titles available. Philips refused to support the production of x-rated videos, while for Sony's standard a plethora of porn was soon available. The porn was exactly what made the videos sell, because seriously, who would pay $4000 just to be able to watch Bambi (the Disney one ;-) at home? Gradually more regular titles became available and over time the x-rated segment became marginal. When marketprices dropped, only the VHS machines were profitable, because of the volume advantage gained from the early days. The point I am trying to make is mostly to tell some nice folklore. But hey, don't you folks see the analogy * porn <--> ms apps * ? If Debian could provide an easy way to run WinWord6 and similar stuff (I'm thinking of the willows libraries) then it would be taken _very_ seriously by many business-people. Just look at all the Office software that Microsoft sold and that they're not willing to support anymore. As I see it, the apps are the single most important reason for people to use Microsoft Windows. Some may think this is all too immoral, but I think that if Debian gets a bigger corporate userbase, then there will also be many more people employed to work with debian. A lot of them will make fine developers or otherwise practical supporters of the free Debian distribution. Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
