Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:51:29 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Very amusing DNS... |
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On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Spirilis wrote:
> > utilities) for Linux. If it is IE, the addition of MS as an application > > provider for Linux should be benifitial to us. > > Beneficial?? First off, if MS makes a product for Linux, this means a portion > of the Linux community will be at least partially dependent upon Microsoft > products... this means, in the end, we CAN'T DO without Microsoft! That is what > many other software developers are stuck in... as well as hardware vendors. Of > course, I would boycott any MS product made for Linux... but some people might > not. That's their own choice, but it still helps Microsoft eventually topple > Linux right on its head as it has so many other operating systems. (e.g. > DR-DOS, OS/2...)
Just look at it this way:
In half a year, we're going to be the _only_ OS that's running MS Internet Exploder at a decent speed... Will that mean that MS can't do without _us_ and that some of the internetting population will switch to us :-)
MS might just topple itself by showing that there _is_ one platform where IE runs at full speed.
Oh, and OS/2 definately isn't toppled! It still has twice the number of users Windows NT has, and NT is being widely touted a succes :)
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