Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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How windows anti Linux strategy will backfire in 2009
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| Microsoft has a strategy aimed at converting Linux/Unix users to windows,
| this is obvious because they are creating the tools and extensions to windows
| that resemble Linux.
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| 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.
Cross-platform apps move users toward the less-used OS.
| they rather have people
| using apache and gimp on windows than having them use it on any other OS. But
| the open source software will start eating windows from the inside, firefox,
| open office, the gimp, you name it. People I know are not using Linux, mainly
| because they don't know how to use the programs.
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http://www.theothersolution.nl/blog6.php/2009/01/12/how-windows-anti-linux-strategy-will-bac-2009
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