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See, this is what is absolutely amazing. This judge said all of this,
AGAINST Microsoft! This is not "M$FUD. There are a great number of people
out there who pretty obviously disagree with his nominalization of Linux.
The ONLY thing that I have read that even comes close to this view, was one
fellow's complaint that there is no adequate / compatible browser for Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/05/144251&mode=nocomment.

As I understand things, HP is jumping on the Linux bandwagon instead of the
Project Monterey bandwagon. Their tools and ability to achieve 64-bitness
may just take the day, riding on the coattails of the Linux movement.
Whether the Linux movement can sustain its momentum or not remains to be
seen. Perhaps Mozilla Gecko (the open source port of the Netscape browser)
will make a good test case, at least for open source without vendor support.


Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cesario [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:32 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: MS judge's Linux assessment

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I use it on a desktop at home...runs fine.  And "people don't use it on
desktop... because it's developed for free..." is illogical.  Then the next
sentence contradicts all this!  It's those "programmers all over the world"
working "pro bono publico" that have brought Linux to where it is today.
The judge should make up his mind one way or the other.

And, in the true spirit of laissez-faire capitalism, where there's a market,
people will come along to satisfy that market's desires; look at companies
like Red Hat, Linuxcare, etc. to get an idea of where Linux stands and where
it's heading (heck, check out HP's IT Resource Center; HP likes Linux
too..:-).  The old "no support" argument doesn't hold water anymore...just
more M$FUD...

A Linux fan,