Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:08:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The halloween document again. Message-ID: <199811030108.RAA11402@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19981103101021.H354@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 3, 98 10:10:21 am"
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its FUD....genuine microsoft FUD.
microsoft is in the middle of alawsuit with the federal
gov't, perhaps the only organization with enough money and
lawyers to beat them in court. the greatest possible, not
most probable, danger to microsoft is that hte company
will be split into an OS branch and an applications branch
(cf ATT and the baby bells)
to disprove the gov'ts case, microsoft will take action
vigorously in and out of court. the Vinod Valloppillil is
an example. witness these two quotes in the news.com
article
(http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28215,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh):
1. "Clearly, there is real and tangible competition in the
operating systems market and as a company that makes
operating systems, Microsoft is clearly paying attention,"
said spokesman Adam Sohn. "We're examining competitive
issues all the time."
2. "Relative to other OSS projects, Mozilla is considered to be
one of the most direct, near-term attacks on the Microsoft
establishment. This factor alone is probably a key galvanizing
factor in motivating developers towards the Mozilla
codebase," the memo says. "The availability of Mozilla
source code has renewed Netscape's credibility in the
browser space to a small degree."
Please dont find against us judge, we cant barely defend
ourselves against this new threat...... ;)
jmb
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