Microsoft closes another deal, is redhat next?

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Mon Jun 25 10:57:09 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> Kelly:
>>> I'd agree, except for the identity of the company proposing
>>> "interoperability".  Microsoft doesn't have a history of that; 
>>> rather, it has a history of EEE and lock-out, and considering Windows
>>> is one of their two big cash cows, I do not believe for a second that
>>> they really want interoperability.  I suspect what they'd prefer is a
>>> method of forcing people from Linux to Windows, but not vice-versa
>>> (they did the same thing with O/S2).
> 
> Les Mikesell:
>> Of course that's what they want.  Why does that matter?
> 
> Just so long as they don't succeed (at the "forcing," or just continuing
> to make life very difficult for everyone else).
> 

Give me one example of how they can make my life difficult.

Have fun ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip




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