Another point of view

Another point of view

Posted Jul 16, 2009 9:20 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Actually it's true by khim
Parent article: The Open-PC Project Announced at GCDS 09 (KDE.News)

(first netbooks had 4GB of RAM and 7" LCD, remember)

You mean 4GB of hard drive and 512 MB of RAM. Actually mine has a 2GB SSD. But this does not mean that they really wanted Windows XP -- perhaps they didn't care what OS to install as long as the things sold. (Even if, as you say, they prefer to have a big supporter behind.)

If you have read the first chapter of "The Innovator's Dilemma" we can gain a new perspective of this situation: a niche opens, a new player enters, and the old player has to struggle to compete. In this case Microsoft won because they adapted, but it is easy to see what would have happened otherwise: people buying Linux in droves and everyone else adapting to it. In other words: it was not the Evil Empire which crushed the little penguin, but the smart player that adapted to the situation. (And Linux which failed to deliver comparative benefits.)

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