[plug] Are we at 'war' with Microsoft?

[Cameron Patrick]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 03:38:21PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| > But if open source developers are now trying to compete with Microsoft
| > competing with us and trying to beat or reach Microsoft's deadlines then
| > isn't is possible that the quality of open source software could suffer?
[...]
| It's not as though OSS is a single, tangible entity that can be 'put
| under pressure'.

Now this, I think, is what really scares people like Microsoft who would
just love to see the free software competing with them just curl up and die.

| > I'd like to see homogeneous environments of Windows, *BSD, Unix, Linux,
| > Apple, Java based OS's and BeoS as well as every other OS that I missed
| > out.
| 
| Yeah, that is satisfying. Eventually I will run out space in my brain,
| though ;-)

Amen.

Cameron.

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