I don't know if it is appalling... More like good business sense to me... ie taking a bad situation and trying to make it work in your favor. Remember, M$ success has always been built on superior marketing/business savy not on superior product.
-g >From: Toby Tremayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: CF-Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re[2]: WOT - but very funny >Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:19:29 +1000 > >But then what you ahve to remember is this isn't something M$ is doing >uot of the goodness of it's heart - it's supposed to be a PUNISHMENT, >for which M$ actually thinks it's reasonable to spend an amount of >money that they make in 3 weeks just from the interest on their cash >assets on a scheme that will cost thousands of schools dearly in 5 >years time. That's just appalling. > >Toby > > > >Thursday, November 22, 2001, 4:08:09 AM, you wrote: > >GK> I don't know that they would look bad in refusing such an offer. What >GK> company in their right mind would pay to have a competitors product >GK> installed for the next generation of users. > >GK> -george > > > >>From: "Brad Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>To: CF-Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: RE: WOT - but very funny > >>Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:41:42 -0500 > >> > >>It's funny because they've got MS in a bind. MS wanted the renewal fees > >>after 5 years. With Linux, they get nothing. Now they can either take >Red > >>Hat's offer or look really bad to the public. Very timely move for Red > >>Hat. > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: William J Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:08 AM > >>To: CF-Linux > >>Subject: Re: WOT - but very funny > >> > >> > >>:) whys that funny thats a agreat idea, i mean BY Microshit installing >the > >>OS w/ hardware on all those computers after 5 years they WIN. But being >a > >>Linux guy myself i would love to see Schools using RH ;) > >> > >>AND the extra great thing is all the good hackers will have school time >to > >>practice too :) > >> > >> > >>Bill Wheatley > >>Director of Development > >>Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > >>AEPS INC > >>Allaire ColdFusion Consulting Partner > >>www.aeps.com > >>www.aeps2000.com > >>954-472-6684 X303 > >>ICQ: 417645 > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Justin MacCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: "CF-Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:18 AM > >>Subject: WOT - but very funny > >> > >> > >> > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011120/202744_1.html > >> > > >> > >> >GK> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
