[plug] Bill embraces Linux?

Peter Scully scully at penguin.net.au
Thu Mar 4 18:33:59 WST 1999



Tamara Thompson wrote:

> Read this about Linux:
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2219282,00.html
>
>

Oh No!  Linus wants to dominate the world too, who will win (I'll wait for
the comic version Bill Gates vs Linus Torvalds slog it out to the death for
world domination).  :)

> >>>
> I have just been experimenting with WINE and was wondering what sort of
> reaction the Linux community would have to an announcement that Microsoft
> would embrace Linux and begin developing/porting applications.
>
> Everyone else is jumping on the bandwagon, why not the Empire? Would it
> give them brownie points for encouraging diversity of OS's in the eyes of
> the DOJ? Or further implicate them as raving monopolists?
>
> I hope i will not have nightmares now.
>
> Greg Raftery
>
>



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