>From: "Bob Munck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
>> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 1998 5:26 AM
>
>
>> - Linux is already vastly superior to Windows NT. Microsoft
>> has no hope of catching up because
>
>>(a) they don't have the resources
>
>Pardon me? MS has some 11,000 people in R&D, annual profits of
>$4,500,000,000. How big is Linux, maybe 5,000 function points?
>MS could start from scratch and build a completely new OS of the
>same level of functionality in six months with a tenth of those
>resources.
ahem.
then why is it taking them so long (way off schedule) with NT 5.0?
and why haven't they ever built a "state of the art" OS?
keg
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