[X Newbies] OS stability - was Re: [X Newbies] Crashing of text editor?

[Steven Rogers]

On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:55 AM, Eugene Lee wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:06:57PM +1000, marina wrote:
> :
> : SR wrote:
> :
> :  >How can you say that MS has a monopoly on the market when we're 
> sitting
> :  >here using something else?
> [...]
> :
> : You don't call this monopoly? I'm not good at semantics, so if you 
> would
> : like to propose an alternative definition, I'm happy to listen :-)
>
> Steven is being too pendantic, arguing that if M$ was a true 
> by-the-book
> monopoly, there would be no choice at all, there would be no Macs, no
> Linux, no *BSD, etc. in existence for consumers to own.  It's the same
> difference between the dictionary definition of monopoly and the
> real-world practical monopoly.

No, I'm not making a pedantic distinction, I'm saying that your 
"modern" definition of monopoly reverses cause and effect by focusing 
on something like "market share" and Microsoft, while ignoring the 
cause.

SR