Just found a nice thing that sums it up, the situation 10 years ago:www.spectacle.org/0901/maloney.html
But: by 'ending up like Microsoft' I mean disenchanting its users by being overly authoritative, and by 'forcing' I mean 'forcing computer manufacturers to take Windows if they wanted to continue shipping their computers with MS-DOS already installed. Computer makers abided, because selling a computer with no operating system installed would have put them at a severe disadvantage: consumers didn't want to install operating systems themselves if they didn't have to.' (from the link)
edit: anyway, sod this, time for tea :9
(But: by 'ending up like Microsoft' I mean disenchanting its users by being overly authoritative, and by 'forcing' I mean 'forcing computer manufacturers to take Windows if they wanted to continue shipping their computers with MS-DOS already installed. Computer makers abided, because selling a computer with no operating system installed would have put them at a severe disadvantage: consumers didn't want to install operating systems themselves if they didn't have to.' (from the link)
edit: anyway, sod this, time for tea :9
Ysol ab abl blap,
Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:38,
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artifus is doing it all wrong,
Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:46,
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disenchanting its users by being overly authoritativeapple itunes, istore, etc
( artifus is doing it all wrong,
Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:54,
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ah gotcha, well yeah that's what I meant, they have started going down that road too, unfortunately :/ Ysol ab abl blap,
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