Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:35:36 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Rich Wilson" <wk633@yahoo.com>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <002701c0f3f4$95225980$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010613121813.J57154@lpt.ens.fr>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Rahul Siddharthan [mailto:rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in] >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:18 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Rich Wilson; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again > > >Rahul Siddharthan said on Jun 13, 2001 at 12:13:02: >> > "Copyright Regents of the University.... embedded in it" and "Gee, why >> > is Microsoft selling MS Office for MacOS X which is a BSD-based OS" and >> >> They'll take aim at MacOS X too. It's a competitor. The only reason >> they give for not porting Office to linux is that there is no demand >> for it. > >Sorry, that was a bit incoherent. I mean, they'll sell Office for >MacOS X because they want to sell Office to whoever will buy it, and >they realistically know the Mac market isn't going to die anytime >soon. But that doesn't mean they're abandoning their Windows >Everywhere goal. It won't stop them spreading fud to future customers >about Windows being professionally developed as opposed to MacOS X >being based on stuff put together by a bunch of hackers... > And probably step #1 in the "put yer money where yer mouth is" department is Microsoft divesting itself of their investment in Apple. When this happens I'll be ready to believe that they are aiming their fud cannons at Apple. Otherwise I find the possibility very dim. Even the major automakers in the world recognize that they aren't going to be able to cut into the market for something as ugly as a "new bug" so they are leaving Volkswagen alone on that one. Microsoft recognizes that no matter how good their crap is that there will always be a significant market of people that insist on being "different" that they will never be able to sell squat to, even if they paint themselves pink and jump up and down singing "BSD Rocks, BSD Rocks, BSD Rocks" Aiming at those people is just a good way to run your cannon dry when you have better things to do - like attempting to prove to the government that your not a monopoly. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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