Why shouldn't MS develop software based on linux or any other OS? Theis strategy could be easily predicted: make good (closed source) application, they'll make it cross-platform, so you could run in on both OS'es, then after gaining significant parts of the market, they'll start making MS specific changes and slowly kill all the competitors. (See netscape case). I guess this strategy may be called "if you can't beat them, then join them AND beat them later"
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 14:22, Amir Tal wrote: > remember that website that looked like Microsoft's main page and joked > about MS$ developing a linux distro ? (cant remember the URL right now...) > > take a look at this : > http://net.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=48571 > > the sad thing is that you cant tell anymore if this is a joke or not... -- Boris Gorelik Tue, 10/Dec/2002, 5 Tevet 5763 ------------------------------------------------- ! Molecular Modelling Group ! ! Pharmacy School, Hadassa Faculty of medicine ! ! The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ! ! http://www.md.huji.ac.il/models/group.html ! ! !------------------------------------------------ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
