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Re: Micoshaft killer IBM sinks fangs into Micoshaft's Jugular

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____/ Linonut on Saturday 09 August 2008 00:17 : \____

> * 7 peremptorily fired off this memo:
> 
>> Micoshaft killer IBM sinks fangs into Microshaft's Jugular.
>> Looks like its the end of Micoshaft.
>>
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8440296446.html
>>
>> IBM presses ahead with micoshaft free desktop.
> 
> This, from the article, is really interesting, too:
> 
>    In one gesture toward open source, IBM was reported by Network World
>    to have announced at LinuxWorld that it is open-sourcing its
>    Linux-based supercomputing code. The HPC Open Source Software Stack,
>    which includes IBM's Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit, is said
>    to represent IBM's first open-source contribution for supercomputing.
> 
> Sounds cool.
> 
> Any good story has to have a good send-off:
> 
>    A day after IBM's Suter spoke in San Francisco, he reportedly flew to
>    the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas where he called for less
>    mimicry of Windows in Linux UI design. As reported in BetaNews, Sutor
>    suggested that if designers needed inspiration, they should instead
>    look to the Apple Macintosh.
> 
>    (Hey, it worked for Microsoft.)
 
IBM calls it "Microsoft-free desktop", but not "Free desktop".

It's a nice thing.

The first thing to do is wipe Lotus and install something like OOo. :-)

Accepting Lotus at Office's expense is just swapping masters.

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s store before I did and took
the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and steal the stereo."
        
                        --Bill Gates, Microsoft
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