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> Don't forget MacOS and MacOSX. The latter could qualify as a form of Unix. > > I wonder why MS sees Linux as a threat and not these other Unices. I > suppose since it can run on the x86? Because Linux is dangerous for MS, and MacOS, HP-UX, Solaris, etc are not. The reason is simply that Linux is free or at least low-cost is you consider that you should buy a distribution. Workstations are expensive, and therefore will never get a significant share in the consumer world. Therefore, MS can keep a large share when competing with non-free systems, but is threatened by Linux boxes (very low-cost OS with tons of freeware, very reliable, almost insensitive to viruses, that can run on cheap hardware, and with lots of very cheap hardwares supported). Pascal
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