Re: info center search. III.

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Leif Svalgaard wrote:
>
> Studies show again and again that the QWERTY-keyboard is about
> the worst there is. The Dvorak keyboard is far better: fewer errors,
> higher typing rate, less training, etc. Yet the better product has no
> chance against the QWERTY.
>

What kind of an argument is that?  QWERTY beat Dvorak, therefore nobody
should ever try to compete against a popular solution?

If that's the case...   NT is vastly more popular than OS/400, let's
abandon it now!

> It HAD some (think of OS/2) but even IBM had to throw in the towel.
> M$ has enough money to BUY any serious competitor. How about $10B
> cash? That would stop anybody.

It wouldn't stop BSD or Linux.  There's nothing to buy-out.  Why do you
think that Microsoft hates open source software so much?

> The only way is to make any vendor
> of software liable for damages as all other products (e.g. cars, tires,
> tobacco, asbestos, ...). The notion that Linux will take over the desktop
> is wishful thinking (I wish it too). It is like with OS/2: every year we hear
> that it is just about ready to take off, and it never did.

Linux already has taken off.  It has more users than OS/2 did by orders of
magnitude.  However, competing with Windows is a much more difficult
thing.

Microsoft is a monopoly.  This discussion, and it's arguments have made
that abundantly clear!   Monopolies are broken up for a reason!  The
damage that MS is doing to the computer industry, by making it so
difficult to compete, needs to be stopped!