Yesterday, I responded to Microsoft^WSun's so-called 'Reality-Check' at
http://www.sun.com/executives/realitycheck/reality-022002.html with this
response:
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Very Informative in one sense, that is: This article makes it clear that Sun
is no better than Microsoft when addressing competitive
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, at 3:21pm, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
IBM, on the other hand, is taking the intelligent position: Observe where
the world of software is going and embrace it. Though I am cautious and
skeptical of Big Blue's participation in the Free Software / open source
communities, what
'course, IBM learned their lesson and are playing nice now. Nice
being relative to a multi-billion dollar company.
-Mark
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 15:39, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, at 3:21pm, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
IBM, on the other hand, is taking the intelligent position: Observe
I agree. In my $.02 opinion, what made Microsoft great is
that at one time they were more open than anyone else at the
time. Their stuff was easier to work with... remember all the ugly
copy protection schemes vendors used to prevent people from making
copies of the software they shelled out