Re: [SLUG] incredible statement

From: patrick (patrick@llc.net)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 10:07:13 EDT


On Sunday 03 June 2001 05:54 am, you wrote:
> Smitty wrote:
>
>
> <snip>
>
> > This would create a very bad public relations situation for ms which
> > could be usede as ammunition again and again. You have to aggressively
> > oppose the Nazi mentality of microsoft. Microsoft must die.
> > Smitty
>
> Microsoft isn't all bad -- they can serve as a bad example.
>
> Seriously, I don't want an all-Linux world, or all-BSD, or all-anything
> world any more than I want an all-microsoft world. If Linux could just
> double it's desktop presence from 15% to 30%, (at least enough that apps
> would be automatically ported) that would turn that market into a
> genuinely competitive one, then everyone wins and I could finally get a
> job writing Linux code instead of microsoft dreck.
>
> Ed.

actually i could linux having a little larger market share but i agree
we need a little microsoft around just to keep linux going full
steam.



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