Dude ... i never said they were free. I said Microsoft's entry into the field led to lower prices across the board On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Ashok Hariharan <ashok@parliaments.info>wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Oddly enough there is some truth to the only part of the aki's rant that makes sense. Just go back in history and see how much Word Processing Suites, Spreadsheets, databases, operating systems, databases and even browsers (yes, browsers) used to cost back in the day until good old Bill decided to get into the mix.
don't ms-office , ms-access and windows etc still cost money ?
Like it or not he led the path to consumerize IT. Something Apple is now doing.
certainly, i dont disagree with that. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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