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Re: [News] Microsoft's Top Ten Flops

__/ [ Handover Phist ] on Saturday 17 June 2006 18:49 \__

> Roy Schestowitz :
>> __/ [ Handover Phist ] on Saturday 17 June 2006 17:19 \__
>>
>>> Stephen Fairchild :
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> | 10.No Microsoft Linux!: Microsoft could have and should have done its
>>>>> | own version of Linux. It could have bought a Linux distro vendor or
>>>>> | just christened some branch of Windows (with some Unix-compatibility
>>>>> | add-ons) as Microsoft Linux. By doing this, Microsoft could have
>>>>> | thrown a real monkey wrench into Linux companies' plans.
>>>>
>>>> Linus owns the trademark and would likely sue.  How can you get away
>>>> with calling a software stack, Linux, without including the kernel?
>>> 
>>> Just take a linux and produce a distribution (or several like Ubuntu),
>>> certify a branch of professionals, market the hell out of it for
>>> serverspace, own the Linux market. Microsoft fucked up big time when it
>>> refused to join in the fun. They can easily keep Windows going as a
>>> proprietary product by simply not including GPL source code, and keeping
>>> records to that effect.
>>
>> <cut head *grin* />
>>
>>  ) Given  that  Vista mess,  this      (
>> (  seems  more  likely to  happen       )
>>  ) now  than ever before. It is a      (
>> (  big  gamble  though. Why  risk       )
>>  ) what   you  have?  A  monopoly      (
>> (  position,       that       is.       )
>>  ) Additionally,  would that  not      (
>> (  be  analogous  to admitting  a       )
>>  ) mistake and giving endorsement      (
>> (  to Open Source? What about the       )
>> '---------------------------------------'
>>
> 
> With Vista, I think their monopoly position is already in a bit of
> trouble. More info on my position regarding the market is at
> http://blog.websterscafe.com/.
> 
> Um, I think the cat ate the last part of your post there Roy...

The  cat  doesn't live here anymore. He was doing more  harm
than good. *smile*

>From  memory,  the truncated part said something  about  the
migration  to the Web, away from the off-line  applications,
which  need  patching to be delivered in isolation  and  are
inconsistent, immobile, etc.

Best wishes,

Roy

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