No end to Linux.

[Michael]

You assume it matters what corporate schmucks do. They don't buy the Linux
desktop now (for the most part) and even if they don't buy it later either
it won't really matter. Linux and it's desktops will keep rolling along
without them. We'll keep developing our Windows and Office killing
software. Those that use opensource will save money and their companies
will do better. If tied with other wise choices then eventually their
companies will do better than the M$ victims.

Besides.. despite what M$, Apple, and even Linux thinks the desktop is a
dying concept. It won't go away completely.. just as we still have the
console.. but the market will go elsewhere. Whichever gets there first and
best will rule the 'next big thing'. Some people think we'll all be using
embedded apps, some think we'll be using VR, etc. We'll hafta wait and see
which is right. Why fight over today when you can be innovating for
tomorrow. ;)

Don't dream it. Be it.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, zscoundrel wrote:

> 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.
> >
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> >
> > Ian
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