Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Dr. What
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Apr 19 2022 09:44:27

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: Dr. What to Nightfox on Wed Apr 20 2022 12:10 am

 DW> Standard Microsoft Practice: Embrace, Extend, Usurp.

 DW> Remember back to the start of the Netbook craze? The Asus eee PC?

 DW> The eee PC wouldn't run the current Windows, so Asus ask Microsoft if they
 DW> could license Win95 (I think). MS said "No". So Asus initially brought
 DW> their product to market as Linux only - and it sold REALLY well.

 DW> Microsoft then quickly changed their mind and agreed to license the older
 DW> Widows. But they still charged a hefty fee for that license (compared to
 DW> the price of the netbook).

 DW> So people were avoiding the Windows eee PC because it cost more than the
 DW> Linux version (it was more than the license fee because of the extra RAM
 DW> needed to run Windows).

 DW> Microsoft again changed their mind on the license fee and dropped it to
 DW> something reasonable.

 DW> They can't have people finding out that Linux is just as easy to use as
 DW> Windows.

I remember hearing about the Asus eee PC, but I never used one.  I don't remember hearing about it using Linux and selling really well though..  I didn't know that many people had been using Linux on a consumer PC.

Nightfox
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