On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > Is M$ really thinking about this? That would really be the end of the > > internet. > > I doubt it. There's no real thing that Microsoft can offer that would > make end-users *want* to use their proprietary protocol. On the other We did not ask for a broken OS either, and yet they made it. We did not ask for a securityless OS, yet they made it. They have money, they can push.
> hand, there are a lot of people that would really, really not want this to > happen - like all those web and database servers running Unix. Plus, > Cisco controls as much of the router market as Microsoft controls the > desktop market. They aren't likely to just decide to start taking orders > about how to do networking from Microsoft just because Microsoft wants > them to. > That is what I hope. A big part of the business market still uses Unixes and those are the people who know something about network stuff. Greetz, Sebastiaan
