On Monday 19 February 2001 23:16, Ben Donohue wrote:
> crikey!
> all these worries about this company or that company using linux and
> whether it's ready on time or not, and product schedules and shipment dates
> etc, etc, etc.
>
> one thing to remember...
>
> no one is FORCED to use linux. it's free. they can use it or not. if they
> want it they conform to the way it's done. if linus takes 3 years or even 5
> to bring out 2.6, who cares! we'd LIKE it sooner - but hey - it might only
> take 9 months. all this is just FUD.
Where Microsloth STILL haven't grasped reality is they cannow ever hope to
win.
Make open source "illegal", and it will only be driven underground, where it
will grow in popularity, and Microsoft will suffer MORE damage.
What they should do, but Gales and Ballless (oops... BALLMER) can't get theur
collective shared brain-cell around it, is port their fscking APPLICATIONS to
Linux and make them WORK...
Regardless of what you think of MS-Office, for example, imagine the
"legitimacy" that Linux would achieve if M$ ported it ? Or Money, or
FrontPage (v 1.0, not the crap they sell now), or even Urban Assault (very
cool game that I have the development copy of, I don't think it ever made it
to market).
Shit yes, Gates would make money... But so would the Linux community !!
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