Re: [chat] The latest Microsoft attack

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:20:19PM +1000, Matthew Palmer (mjp16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Andre Pang wrote:

[snip]

> > > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/zd/20010702/tc/ms_attacks_open_source_1.html

[snip]

> Imagine the next step - pressuring (one way or another) companies to not
> produce both Windows and Linux versions of things.  Which way is a software
> company likely to go?  Which is the bigger market?
> 
> Basically, each time MS comes out with one of these, I pray harder that
> something large and explosive lands in the middle of Redmond, WA.  They are
> such arrogant wankers that I'd love it if someone capped Gates & Co.


If they do this they have to take back ALL of the current Resource Kits:

 * Standard Perl Distribution
 * Standard Posix Utils

They will be further in trouble when people want to use sed/awk/grep/etc.


Just a thought.
jhs




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