On Thursday 12 January 2006 11:59, Richard Morgan wrote:
> With the tens of billions of dollars they have in the bank, I believe MS
> could afford to kill Linux and absorb the resulting antitrust fines. As
> long as 90% of desktops use MS technology they're not going anywhere.
>
> Given Ballmer's enjoyment of killing things, I would not be surprised
> to see MS
> try to leverage their patents against Linux. Look at how they've been so
> successful in preventing NTFS write support?
Which brings up another question for me. With the small need that I have to
write to NFS I've yet to have any problems writing to NTFS. Anyone here had
any experience either way?
--Steve Szmidt
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