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Re: [News] Microsoft's Strategy of Just Copying GNU/Linux Will Fail

After takin' a swig o' grog, Matt belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> | Microsoft likes to see open source coming to windows, 
>
> I don't believe that last sentence is true at all.
>
> MS would rather the open-source apps be peculiar to Linux.  That way 
> there is little interest in them from developers other than Linux 
> developers.  Then Windows developers /stay/ Windows developers rather 
> than cross-platform developers, and the development of open source apps 
> receives far less effort.  And there will be little interest in the apps 
> from users other than Linux users.  That way Windows users /stay/ 
> Windows users.
>
> IMO one of the worst mistakes MS ever made was to port Word to Macintosh.

Well, that move gave them a lot of leverage in betraying Apple, though.

> Cross-platform apps move users toward the less-used OS.

-- 
History is curious stuff
	You'd think by now we had enough
Yet the fact remains I fear
	They make more of it every year.

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