[plug] M$ wants you to pay & Mac to go OSS

[Christian]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Garry Moir wrote:
> 
> > Not a Linux issue, but of interest.
> >
> > M$ has plans for selling its service pack for Win98.
> 
> How tipical, oh well just another reason not to use M$ products. Not that
> I needed another reason :)

It sold Win98 which is very close to the equivalent of Win95 OSR2 + a
few extra (free) patches + IE4 (also free).

> > Mac anounces its interest in going Open Source with its X server.

Ummm... I know nothing about Apple or Macs but I think it's actually Mac
OS X Server (ie, the server edition of Mac OS X), not an "X Server" in
the way we understand it...

Regards,

Christian.

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