[OT] Market Snare

[Rob Cozens]

Stephen,et al:

>Jobs' contributions a lot more than Bill Gates'. As I see it, he 
>didn't invent anything...just resold or stole stuff that others did.

Gates also benefited greatly, IMF(oolesh)O, from the same "lets 
compete on technology instead of price" mentality I attributed to Mr. 
Jobs, this time displayed by the executives at Softech Microsystems 
when pricing the UCSD-p operating system for the original IBM PC at a 
level TEN X higher than Microsoft was charging for MS/DOS.

Had the p-System been priced @ $40 a pop, Mr. Gates would still have 
to work for a living, sez I.

And what might Apple's market share be today if they had competed on 
the basis of price instead of technology?

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)