In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ian Hilliard
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on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:02:20 +0100
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Linux has won -- long live the rest of the indemnified stack
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Welcome to the "Linux Everywhere" world. Microsoft now loves Linux,
>> | even if Steve Ballmer wouldn't don a penguin suit.
>> |
>> | Yes, Linux, I think we can safely say, has won. Oracle wants to get it
>> | to you cheap. Microsoft wants to let you choose how to deploy your
>> | applications -- on Linux or Windows instances, perhaps on the same
>> | machine or blade rack. Intel, AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Sun -- they all
>> | just love Linux.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/index.php?p=2370
>
> It is a little too early to make that claim. It will be possible to make
> that claim when "No one ever got fired for using Linux" is the standard
> catch cry. Unfortunately, there are still too many PHB's that only know
> Microsoft and will use nothing else.
>
> Ian
Plus, Microsoft hasn't really fired off its big guns yet;
patents could be Linux's downfall.
Of course they did try something with SCO which was more
along the lines of trade secrets -- and failed miserably.
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