[luau] Oregon at the whims of the corporate Big Brother...

Eric Jeschke jeschke at ahi.uhh.hawaii.edu
Mon May 5 12:28:01 PDT 2003


| Ouch I just had a nasty thought, what if Microsoft made their own
| Linux distro? Now I got to go wash my mouth out with soap. But can you
| see how a smart company would benefit from seeing the change and
| acting on it to survive?

I really think they will come out with a "MS Linux" (have thought this
for years).  They will have to eventually, just like they finally had to
adopt the internet and TCP/IP when they saw the inevitable.  They will
try to co-opt Linux and make their version proprietary, like they did
with Kerberos, DNS, Java, etc. etc.  It will be interesting to see how
they deal with the GPL. 

--Eric

Eric Jeschke
http://redskiesatnight.com/





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