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Re: [News] SGI Couldn't Compete with GNU/Linux, Neither Can Sun Nor Microsoft

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____/ Matt on Friday 03 April 2009 02:11 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
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>> | It sounds like a simple argument to suggest that x86 Linux killed SGI and
>> | is killing Sun, but the truth of the matter is that both companies could
>> | have made things significantly better for themselves by embracing Linux
>> | early on, instead of fighting the tide and waiting until their market
>> | position had been vanquished.
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>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10210431-62.html
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> 
> Just as governments and others in the US and UK generally lag behind
> most of the world in accepting FOSS.

Microsoft too. It's trying to redefine OSS and it's busy suing OSS.

SCO woke up too late and then sued as well.

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