OT: of X, Unix, Linux and Microsoft
OT: of X, Unix, Linux and Microsoft
- Subject: OT: of X, Unix, Linux and Microsoft
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:44:53 -0400
Hey folks.
I know this is totally off-topic, but some of you have been so expertly
convincing on the merits of X (and hence Unix) that even I, a die-hard 9er,
have come around to not only accept my own inevitable return to Unix (from
VAX/VMS days at VPI) in the form of Mac OSX. It won't be soon that I'll be
9less, but it will probably be sooner than I thought that I'll Xify.
Any way, in doing some reading, I was just completely fascinated by a series
of special articles regarding the SCO suit targeting IBM and the resulting
series of threats at commercial Linux users from SCO...then MS steps into
the fray in several perceptible ways.
What I thought I'd share, in the kind of "sick" way that Mac folk like to
see MS jittery, is this short quote from one of the articles in the series:
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"Retaliate with price when needed to slow or stop encroachment" of Linux, the
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note said. "This would be done on a selective and often creative basis, but
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field operatives have instructions to not lose deals to Linux, according to
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our checks. An example of the creative pricing tactics came yesterday with the
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announcement that corporations using Software Assurance can now provide their
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end users with the benefit of a "free version" of Office to use at home."
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In the latest example of the looming Microsoft-Linux battle, the city council
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of Munich, Germany, announced it would move 14,000 PCs and 16,000 users from
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Microsoft's Windows operating system over to the Linux open source system.
The fascinating read of the whole series is here:
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http://www.internetnews.com/special/index.php/13851>
I don't suppose Apple's FreeBSD variant (that's right, isn't it?) of Unix
has any connection to all of this, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me,
since MS has now bought in to SCO's claims of infringement inside the Linux
kernel. Who knows where all of this might go over the coming years.
--
Gary
MacOS 9.1 / "9 is Fine"
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