From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) Subject: Re: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?) Date: 29 Sep 1992 15:00:11 GMT
Ok, so I lie. I said I wasn't gonna reply to this thread again, and here I
am doing it again...
In article <1992Sep29.032702.16609@microsoft.com> t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken) writes:
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>In article <1a7gv0INNc35@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
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>> This when
>>it's as certain as plain daylight that Microsoft will never have
>>a market share as large as what it had in 1987, ever again,
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>> Remember these guys tries writing
>>DOS, Windows, OS/2.
>And how many copies of these have the 'peasants' (as you call them)
>purchased?
>
This is just a guestimate based on what I've seen these users do, but I'd say
approximately a fifth of those who are in posession of it paid for the stuff,
and the rest copied it illegally.
And your point is...?
>>I work hard on educating all the peasants I can find.
As you should.
>> -ans.
>>--
>>Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
>Piers.
--Brian
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