Quoth crisk on Wed, Jun 09, 1999:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Amos Shapira wrote:
[No, I wrote it]
> > > > what do they want?
> > >
> > > Money. Let's face it: Microsoft is a falling company, it will
> > > die in 5 or 10 years.
>
> With $80 BILLION to back them up.. they are not going to fall, die,
> or even blink. Unless Bill decides to purchase Kosovo, NATO bombing
> included. </sarcasm>
It is going to die. Look around: Linux is going up, FAST. And
God knows I'm not a Linux lover -- I just admit what I see.
> I don't see how stopping the migration to Hebrew would
> help Microsoft's interests in Israel. Instead of buying the upgrade
> to Windows XT 2050,
Apart from the fact that Microsoft will not exist in 2050,
Windows will never run on XT.
> people will run their old NT 4.0 and Windows 9x boxes.
> In my book, that's Microsoft *losing* money.
> What option is better,
> selling X, profiting 900% or so on it, and have some potential Y pirated
> -- or -- selling 0, profiting 0 and having nothing pirated.
They don't just sell Hebrew Windoze, they also invest money to
localize Windoze. So if they profit $N, but whould invest $M,
where M > N, it's no good for them to sell Hebrew Windows.
> Long live Linux, for being available, free, and non-centrally controlled.
I would rather praise the three free BSD systems, but I would get
bashed for this on this list... So I'd better shut up, I guess.
> Instructions for life:
> 14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Yup.
Vadik.
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