[Am-info] Re: adopting alternative OSes

[felmon davis]

On Monday 28 April 2003 19:38, Erick Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:03:08 -0400, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
> >madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> >> I think what you keep missing is that a company like Apple or
> >> Microsoft has pretty much one direction to follow.  Can you
> >> imagine a Marketing VP at Apple telling a 10,000+ seat client
> >> that they would be better off buying PCs instead of Apples, or
> >> someone at Microsoft suggesting that OpenOffice would be a
> >> better idea then m$Office?  But that is what happened/happens in
> >> IBM.
> >
> >Behavior like this is what convinces me that someone high at IBM
> > took a bribe to promote MS products over his own company's.  It's
> > absolutely unbelievable in any other context.
> >
> >John
>
> If I had the time and the resources to so some focussed "data
> mining", I think your proposition would be strongly accepted, or
> proved, even if only circumstantial.
>
> After all these years about this "conspiracy theory" I have never
> heard a believable argument to the contrary.  Yes, I know it's
> difficult to prove a negative, but not impracticable.  Conspiracy
> theories have become a no-no, politically-incorrect, but
> conspiracies happen.  Anyone who adamantly diss's such should be
> suspect of being in denial, or maybe worked for Kenneth Lay?

I don't reject conspiracy theories. they are sometimes quite true.

but about this theory, wouldn't the decision, even if prompted by a 
bribe, have to make some kind of business sense?

F.