[arachne] Re: Marketability of DOS software

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On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:22:39 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:

> Nothing they find in the market analyzes they base their assumptions
> on indicates that DOS is still being sold, let alone that it has a
> significant market share, and this is the only thing they need to know
> about it. They are not interested in open source versus closed source
> or in numbers of anonymous downloads, they are only interested in the
> number of people who pay for something. Only if somebody is willing to
> pay for his OS he is in their target group; pennyless freeloaders do
> not count.

That's a point that I hadn't considered, but it is very true!

> If somebody who reads this feels insulted by these words, I apologize,

Sometimes the truth has to be faced, no matter how much we dislike it.

If someone feels insulted, they should blame it on all the Windoze users.

    Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
    and remember what peace there may be in silence.
        "Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952.

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