dep wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2002 19:24, Rick Sivernell wrote: > > | I was at the book store this afternoon, minding my own > | bussiness. I picked up a Linux Mag, right in the middle of the mag > | was a M$ web host ad. free XP and free that for isp's. That really > | does take go nads. > > great! if microsoft is willing to spend money so that publications > and sites that advocate linux can stay in business, that's just > dandy. of course, microsoft ads would be more effective for microsoft > in just about any other publication, including ms. and the dairy goat > journal. but that's microsoft's concern, not ours. > -- > dep
>>I believe that M$ is more concerned than just a little. After years of just ignoring >Linux M$ has had a few nasty turn of events lately. XP is in the process of bombing >and software writers are starting to advise businesses to look at Linux as an >alternative to M$. Then Big Blue dumps $10 million worth of Linux software on the net >so show their commitment to Linux. That drove the price of Red Hat from $4 a share to >$8 on the market and Caldera's stock went from $.22/share to $1.89 (now back to >$.95). Then their hot Linux memo gets leaked to the press and to add to their misery, >Mandrake starts shopping around for businesses to highlight in their ads who have >switched from M$ to Linux to counter M$'s ads. And, you know those IBM ads featuring >the stolen servers being replaced by IBM's running Linux must be driving up sales of >Rolaids in Redmond. Finally, AOL annpunces that it is in talks to buy Red Hat. Which >would leave AOL to go after a piece M$'s desktop market while IBM! keeps thumping away at M$'s server market. Gates might start feeling like a wagonmaster under indian attack who is one wagon short of circling the wagons. Lee > > There is sobbing of the strong, > And a pall upon the land; > But the People in their weeping > Bare the iron hand; > Beware the > People weeping > When they bare the iron hand. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
