[plug] MS Freedom to inovate network ????? (off topic )

[alan howard]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Oliver White wrote:
> alan howard wrote:
> 
> > has any one seen microsofts freedom to inovate network- what a joke, and yet
> > some people will believe the one sided rubbish thats on there.
> 
> Please mark your off topic posts as such.
> 
> --
> Oliver White

sorry oliver, i will in future.
Unfortunatly what microsoft does at the moment and in the future has the
possibility of affecting linux users. Microsoft has already decleared war on us
( see leon brooks postings) . Whether we like it , or not, microsoft is in a
position to determin standards for web page formatts, office files , and a host
of other things. Microsoft , at the moment is threatened by the Department of
Justice ruling, and the increasing popularity of Linux and is reacting to this
threat by a series of mis-information not only about linux , but also some of
its competitors in the office suit stakes.  I would not be suprised if
microsoft releases web servers that only IE will work on , and various other
tactics to make the use of linux not so easy ( we can already find web sites
written specifically for IE ).

regards
alan howard