On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:34 pm -0500, Travis Martin wrote: > If it >happens that a tiny fraction of those people use the product to run yet >a third OS, like Linux, fine---what do they care? We're talking about >an insignificant, from their perspective, number of people. While I >feel sure that they aren't going to make any effort whatever to support >this (why should they? there's no money in it...) I also can't imagine >that they'd make even a tiny effort to keep it from working either. >Again, why should they...it's just a tiny fraction of the market. >People wanting to run Linux on VPC on a Mac aren't even a nuisance to >MS...not even a curiosity.
As far as I understand it, MS's main reason for buying VPC was, as an earlier poster said, for its virtual server potential - the ability to run several Windows servers on one machine, possibly on several different versions of Windows. Without getting into black helicopters territory, it does seems plausible that they wouldn't like the idea of someone running a Windows server thinking "hey, with VPC I could also run linux with Apache on this machine, instead of paying out for IIS". So there could be a business case, in their eyes, for disabling linux support. Anyway, we'll find out :) TimH -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
