Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> | Hilf: "'One thing Martin did before I started [with Microsoft] was to
> | help centralize the company around a single way of thinking about this,'
> | Hilf said. 'There were a lot of different people composing theories
> | about what to do to compete against Linux and open source.'"
> |
> | Well there you go, sport. If it were such a non-threat, why are you
> | trying so hard to get rid of it? If Linux is absolutely no threat to
> | Windows on the desktop, as you are claiming throughout this article, why
> | in this world of ours would you and His Majesty Martin Taylor be so
> | hell-bent on destroying it? Why would there be an entire department, and
> | even your very position at Microsoft be created and designed to attack
> | Linux in every conceivable way? Why has everyone been obsessing about
> | ways to nuke Linux, as you, yourself say?
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> http://www.suseblog.com/?p=127
There was a time when Unix ruled the roost, but Microsoft came along and ate
their breakfast by offering a product that was a LOT cheaper and good
enough. Linux is effectively doing the same thing that Microsoft did.
While, in the short term, a lot of marketing and "Get the Facts" campaigns
are slowing down the take up of Linux. In the long term, Microsoft are
going to have to get a LOT better and a LOT cheaper or they will go the way
of Unix, only worse.
Ian
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