-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:03 am, Franki did speak unto the huddled masses, saying:
> I predict that in a couple of years, M$ will release its software for > linux.. when they realise they might be able to sell it for all the > governments running open source(linux) that won't happen for the same > reason they don't use windows.) but they'll try. office is the only product they ever made worth running, and not even that at the price they charge. personally i think 2002 was/is the year of the penguin. it is too late for them to do anything now, it is just a matter of time. oh it will still be years before the desktop is even 10% linux, but i rather suspect that 5-7 years from now when macs, linux, bsd, and heck maybe even beos all have 10-20% or so each and interoperability is the rule not the exception, microsoft will be where ibm is now, anther company that tried to rule it all and now just trys to play nice and give customers what they want. - -- A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed. Can you say "Trustworthy Computing"? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9pbrsBwq+ZwvIN/oRAofSAJ9Se9N3URyyNlRJGpOjwUJoVP/W6gCfXeAm 4KTLdcAhME9TwRrBZh5rTBY= =ytg8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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