From: "Al Amzeen (Alexandr Amzin)" <amzeen AT mtu-net DOT ru>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:41:02 +0400
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Greetings, Alexei A. Frounze <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>! You wrote:
> We don't have _well-known_ alternate software. IMHO there is not enough
> advertisments of such products. Most of people have MSWindows on
home/office
> compiters and use their products as well. Market share is not balanced
here. And
> if we wanna change situation with Microsoft, we must solve problem with
> advertisment, teach people how to work with other similar products instead
of
> MS' ones and develop lacking/missing products as alternate replacement.
This
> needs a lot of money. None pay for it.
There is no need to teach someone. GNU products are cool enough with their
marketing policy.

So, I don't think that Microsoft guilty or not until court is thinking of. I
know one thing: there is a couple of people that using bare Win and only GNU
and other free for distribution tools -- and it's working fine.


ps. The best advertisement is the quality of product.