No end to Linux.

[zscoundrel]

Nah, M$ and all the lawyers in the free world can't kill linux through 
the courts - even if they buy a dozen really stupid judges.  When they 
make their move, it will be through the market - and they are consummate 
masters of misdirection, deception and lies.

Trust me, if there WAS something effective they could do at this point, 
it would have already been done!

Fortunately, Linux is not big enough in the desk top market for M$ to 
kill it - yet.  They will have to wait until there is a critical mass of 
non technical Linux DESKTOP users before they play their trump cards. 
Once they do - unless we are REALLY PREPARED - Linux will suffer the 
same fate as OS/2.

All they have to do is wait until Linux reaches 30 to 40 million 
NON-TECHNICAL desktop users and release a version of M$ Office for Linux 
for a very good price.  This package will SOMEHOW have certain not so 
obvious bugs that keep it from interfacing perfectly with the OS and 
with other versions of M$ Office.  When they spread the word that it has 
to be an OS problem because it works fine on their OS, people will be 
pissed off.

Then all they have to do is spread the word in the CIO/CEO and 
non-technical PC mags that the problems are due to sloppy OPEN SOURCE 
coding.  At the same time. they offer a very cheap or FREE migration 
package to the then current version of 'doze with long term exclusive 
contract commitments.

At this point checks will fly, corporate policy will change, and Linux 
will be sucking hind tit just like when OS/2 Warp imploded.  The fact 
that we have 10 or even 100 times better technology will have nothing to 
do with what people perceive or believe.  What the knowledgeable techies 
have to say will be lost in the noise generated by the biggest FUD 
campaign the world has seen since before the cold war!

Ian wrote:

> I too believe that there would be no end to Linux. Linux shall always 
> live free. But in light of the new Lindows OS and Microsoft, Bill Gates 
> is a very spoiled man. I don't think that he could stop Linux, but I 
> would worry about Lindows. Even though Windows is not trademarked thus 
> making it legal to use the name sort of, Bill will try to take advantage 
> of the system to gain. He should not be allowed to sue the creators of 
> Lindows, Microsoft is the biggest monopoly of any companies out there. I 
> think that they are the reason places such as Xerox, and Adelphia are 
> going belly up. Paul Allen one of Bills Buddies, not to mention who was 
> at Microsoft from the start owns Charter Communications. Now he is going 
> to buy Adelphia and make it his own, and guess who will profit from that 
> Microsoft and Bill.
> 
> If Microsoft should win in the end I don't think it would be the end of 
> Linux, but it would slow down its evolution. And that can not be allowed 
> to happen. Bill needs the competition or he would have no fun. He needs 
> to realize that Windows is not the only OS out there and he needs to 
> deal with it and not try to profit off of it, such as the case with 
> Apple and Macintosh for which he owns fifty percent of.
> 
> The only reason Bill is where he is today is because he is a thief. 
> Nothing that has come from him is original thinking. He is what he is 
> because of Steve Jobs and Steve Wassniac.
> 
> "Good artist copy, Great artist steal" Bill Gates.
> 
>  
> 
> Ian
>