Re: POL: Reaction to Microsoft Ruling

From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 03:00:11 MDT


On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:14:35PM -0400, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> > Clue: Microsoft's grip on the UK market is even tighter than its grip in
> > the US -- the Mac platform never caught on over here.
>
> My cousin who went to Oxford says that Mac is huge there.

Huge?

Yeah, if 2% of the market is "huge".

Methinks you have a _very_ weird picture of how the world works in your
head, and the further away from the centre of your mental map you look,
the weirder it gets. Hence your strange image of Europe.

-- Charlie



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