Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, [H]omer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> However, if FUD is Microsoft's only viable product, then they'll soon
>> find themselves following SCO into oblivion.
>
> That is cold comfort. Look how long it has taken TSG to croak (it still
> isn't dead)
Had to Wiki-P that one. I take it you didn't mean the "Territorial
Support Group, a special response unit of London's Metropolitan Police
Service."?
I'll go with The Smoking Gun. Had a look ... didn't ring any bells.
The point is that even though SCO hasn't yet bought the farm, they've
become irrelevant. Nobody cares any more.
> and look at just how much more money MSFT has.
They have a tonne of capital ... they also have a tonne of liabilities.
> I'm afraid we're stuck with this company for a long time to come.
Probably, but for how much of that remaining time will they continue to
be a threat?
> Oh well, at least we've got our GNU/Linux.
No matter how much money they have, Microsoft simply cannot beat "Free".
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K.
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