Re: your mail

[Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>]

I gave Time Inc. as an example of a Mac-place, but was met with jeers. Am
I supposed to believe that your 40 people are representative?

Nobody's stopping you or anyone else from launching a competitor company
to Dell that assembles motherboards, hard drives, cases, power supplies,
floppy drives, CD ROMs, keyboards, and monitors and sells 'em -- without
Windows. The fact that it hasn't happened suggests to me that there's
little demand.

-Declan


On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Mark Hinds wrote:

> 
> > I mean, how many people are going to buy a PC and *not* run Windows? Oh,
> > yes, the whopping Linux crowd. Whatever.
> 
> There are forty of them here at work. They function quite well.
> We of course paid for NT with them because it was impossible
> to get a Dell without NT owing to a combination of Dell's
> policies and the policies of our own IT department.
> 
> Linux is apparently valuable enough that people are
> willing to pay for NT to get it. 
> 
> So what's with 'Whatever'. You don't like emoticons (which
> actually serve a purpose). I don't like 'Whatever' and find
> quite annoying, but then that is no doubt a pleasure for you.
> 
> Mark Hinds (LACR)
> 
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