In comp.os.linux.advocacy, amicus_curious
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on Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:03:18 -0500
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> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, William Poaster
>> <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:47:45 +0000
>> <hr2t45-t35.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> ____/ thad05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Wednesday 02 January 2008
>>>> 14:54
>>>> : \____
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>>>>> amicus_curious <ACDC@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well it has always been the case that no one cares about Linux. We
>>>>>> all
>>>>>> know that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nonesense. You obviously care a lot about Linux... why else would you
>>>>> continue to post in this forum?
>>>>
>>>> Fear.
>>>>
>>>> (and the money Microsoft pays him, in one form or another)
>>>
>>> amicus_curious aka billwg, or Bill Weisgerber has been doing this shill
>>> service for M$ for years, & always in the same *extremely* dishonest
>>> way..
>>>
>>
>> That, plus he's wrong anyway. Microsoft cares about Linux; why else
>> would the Halloween papers get leaked out? ;-)
>>
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
>>
> I would have thought that you were too cerebral for such superficial
> hair-splitting, but perhaps you are not. I can only say that, in marketing
> parlance, anything less than 1% of the magnitude of a market leader's share
> is equated to zero, since it is zero for any useful purpose. Now admittedly
> it is not really zero, but it has the same effect. Whether Microsoft
> wishes, from an abundance of caution, to worry about Linux or not is not the
> issue. Microsoft does not buy OS platform software, they get it for free
> (as in beer).
No, they do not. It cost millions to develop Internet
Explorer alone -- millions in development, testing, deployment,
and administration costs. This cost is reflected on their bottom
line.
Of course the benefits of IE far outweigh the costs. These benefits
include:
- eviscerating Netscape's then-shareware browser sales market, eventually
resulting in Netscape being sold to AOL (and now being dumped)
- monopolizing the browser market
- allowing for some non-standard constructs that can be easily leveraged
by Microsoft tools, but not so easily by non-Microsoft ones
- additional profits from selling those tools
As you can well see, Microsoft has a clear winner here.
> Since no one, in terms of people who buy things, is using it
> on the desktop, one can safely say that no one cares.
Very true; no one should care about Linux. It's immaterial.
So why did this happen?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
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