[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

[jtd]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 06:55 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 17:56, Philip Tellis wrote:
> > Sometime Today, DJ cobbled together some glyphs to say:
> > > Umm...not to belittle BSD community but BSD isn't not exactly
> > > known widely, is it? Sure, they have great stuff but its not
> > > always superior
> >
> > Marketing.
>
> Well there you go. Marketing killed the amiga, clearly a superior
> product, ahead of its time. 

Intepreted basic ran faster on Amiga than assembly on the PC !
It's not merely marketing - according to an ancient BYTE review. 
Innumerable factors contribute to the success / failure of a product. 
Much as managments would like u to belive that it was their magic 
mantra that made a success, most of the time it's just a fortuios set 
of circumstances that make it so. 
Acorn computers plonked into their corner of the circumstances mud 
pool and is florushing beyond anybody's wildest dreams in the form of 
the ARM and thanks in no small measure to GNU and Linux. No Acorn did 
not dream up set top boxes or pdas or cell phones or POS or 
smartcards or gps or RDX sniffers.

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Rgds
JTD