The article corrects some of the myths about how the inferior product beat out the better one, betamax vs vhs, for instance. People tend to forget the contexts

The article corrects some of the myths about how the inferior product beat out the better one, betamax vs vhs, for instance. People tend to forget the contexts in which some of these decisions were made. After using languages like Pascal, the switch to C was truly liberating. Sure you could do dangerous things, but you could also write good code without fighting the language. Or take Windows vs Unix. I installed Unix on my first PC. I had to pay $500 more for Unix (on 10 floppies) and another $500 for the extra memory and disk space to run it. Most people in the world made the opposite choice.