Or management might see that MS really does know the only way to use computers and finally get rid of all of the dinosaurs.
Good luck on your interview. /Tom Kern On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:29:28 -0500, Eric Bielefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This almost sounds like in 1999 when someone claimed a patent on a date >conversion routine, and wanted to charge anyone who was converting dates >in their Y2K efforts. I'm sure MS has very good lawyers working on this, but >how are you going to sue millions of LInux users. The people that work on the >Linux Kernel don't profit on any of it, although IBM and many of the other >software companies make software for Linux that they sell for profit. This >should be very interesting. > >If on the off chance that MS would win, how would that affect z/OS users? I >can see that it might help. People might get pissed off enough at MS, and >convert to a mainframe. (Oh well, its a good thought). > >I'm off to a job interview, and then I have to clean my Dodgeville house, so I >won't be reading the list till tomorrow evening. > >Eric Bielefeld >Milwaukee, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
