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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by walshemj on Friday July 28, 2017 @06:56AM (#14873317)
Do you think NT4 was a worse product that netware ?
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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by nabla9 on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:54AM (#14873554)
You remember only the end.

MS-NET, LAN Manager and MS/IBM joint effort with OS/2 LAN Server were all inferior to Netware. MS battled decades against Novell with inferior products and shady market practices eating their profits. Finally Novell was taken down and crumbled when networking became a core system component in PC operating systems.

Throwing money against to superior product from smaller competitor until you can eat their lunch is proven tactic.

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by gozur88 on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:08PM (#14876254)
So what you're saying is you can displace an entrenched competitor by putting in enough money to end up with a superior product?

That seems... reasonable.

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by nabla9 on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:59PM (#14876616)
Not at all and you know it.
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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by gozur88 on Friday July 28, 2017 @06:18PM (#14878055)
No, I don't know it. What do you mean?
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