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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!stephenk From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Message-ID: <stephenkDpnHM8.864@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <4jv7of$m5t@park.uvsc.edu> <stephenkDpCt4A.LxJ@netcom.com> <4kfk15$dgs@coyote.Artisoft.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:30:08 GMT Lines: 43 Sender: stephenk@netcom3.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14349 comp.os.linux.development.system:21096 comp.os.linux.x:29063 comp.os.linux.hardware:36025 comp.os.linux.setup:49961 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:523 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3099 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2882 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17077 In article <4kfk15$dgs@coyote.Artisoft.COM> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) wrote: >] >You are a developer. You represent zero market segment (I can say >] >this; I am also a developer). >] >] If they TRULY believe this, then I ***DARE*** them to remove windows drivers, >] and tell bill gates they won't support his companies products! He IS just a >] developer! > >He is not a developer, he is a monopolist. He wields monopolistic >power in the market place -- or rather, his company does... he >represents (possibly) millions of developers, actually. He is STILL a developer! > >] >Now if you were a VP at Ingram or Egghead, they would care. >] >] WHY? Egghead and Ingram do NOTHING to generate sales! They are >] market driuen. Their WHOLE job is buying what they THINK the >] customer will, and then selling at a markup! The customer buys >] what they think will best run that "zero market" developers >] software! > >I think that most developers are running MS OS's.. but even so, >by your logic, all they have to do is convince Egghead and >Ingram that customers will buy their cards, and Egghead and >Ingram will buy their cards. They could care less if end >users buy their cards. RIGHT! > >And you as a developer have to support what the customers *do* >buy, not what they *should* buy if they were in possesion of >all the facts. > RIGHT! It IS hard to support cards that are made by someone like Matrox though!