Comment Re:Do we want to allow other OS's to use winmodems (Score 1) 424
"for Ziff-Davis and USA Today....Who really cares all that much about "winning" over "average" users anymore? This is the mistake that sank the Atari ST and Amiga and quite frankly is one that should be avoided at all costs. " I disagree. What killed the Atari/Amiga was lack of support for standard and cheap hardware, which made the machines power/price ratio poor, and so ruling themselves out of the market for gamers (there was no support for PCI/ISA/IDE devices, so "atari specific" devices were required). This was a bad example, dont you think, considering you are suggesting that cheap and common hardware not be actively supported?
