Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:37:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: wjv@cityip.co.za (Johann Visagie) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comment from within Microsoft Message-ID: <199810211537.LAA15765@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <19981021124806.A8651@cityip.co.za> from "Johann Visagie" at Oct 21, 98 12:48:06 pm
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> > > I was having a little icq chat earlier today with someone who works deep > within the bowels of Microsoft. He made the following interesting comment: > > "I really like FreeBSD. they're engineers getting on with it, without any > of the posing and MS bashing that the Linux people seem to enjoy. And what > will the Linux people get in return ? The focus of the MS engineers and > marketers" > > -- V > > Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > Yup... but the mindshare that means commercial apps goes to Linux. This guarantees that MS will focus on them as a target -- but it also allows them to publicize them as a PC OS alternative to Microsoft in things like the antitrust case. This may either weaken or kill Linux in the market for general computing and desktop use or strengthen it to the 600 pound gorilla status among the Free OS's (I think the latter is quite possible). Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill and/or Carolyn Pechter | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | | Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in | | a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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