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>Bad news for LINUX USERS
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> http://www.denounce.com/linux.html
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>MS bought Linus for 18 Billion,
>Where we should go now,
>Linux will not be free anymore .... go go go crying
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Complete news:
MICROSOFT ACQUIRES LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM FOR $18 BILLION
QWERTYUIOP, WA /DenounceNewswire/ -- June 21, 1998 -- Within
hours of IBM's announcement of its $5.7 billion acquisition of the
Apache web server, the most popular server for World Wide Web
sites, Microsoft today announced that it is acquiring Linux, the free
operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds and a
motley group of worldwide programmers, for $18 billion.
Mr. Torvalds, who recently joined a startup called Transmeta
Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, will personally receive $8 billion in cash
and Microsoft stock, instantly making him one of the richest
people in Santa Clara. The rest of the money will be divvied up among the
many contributors to Linux, as well as 17 commercial companies
which market Linux including Caldera, Debian, DLX, Red Hat
Software, Slackware, Stampede, S.u.S.E, and Yggdrasil
Computing. All of the employees, officers, and directors of these companies
will immediately become Microsoft employees.
Transmeta, which is partly funded by the billionaire (and
Microsoft co-founder) Paul Allen, will continue employing Mr. Torvalds,
although, both parties agree it's kind of silly, now that he's
going to be so rich.
Asked why he was willing to pay so much money for the
operating system, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, said, "It isn't a lot
of
money at all. It's nothing." Asked again, he said, "You heard
what I said, now stop bothering me." Asked once more, he replied, "Ok
look, sure we're shelling out $18 billion, but think about it:
every person who is currently using, or who has ever used, the Linux
operating system will immediately need to pay Microsoft
$1,995.00, annually. Consider that there are over 10 million installations
of
Linux worldwide. Do the math. We'll collect almost $20 billion
in the first year alone."
The Linux acquisition could pose a problem for IBM, which
recently shelled out billions for the Apache web server. Apache runs most
commonly on Linux machines. Now, Apache will be running on a
Microsoft operating system. "It's like a high-stakes game of chess,"
said Indu Strypundit, an industry pundit. "And like usual, we
computer users are the pawns."
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