My boss told me yesterday about an article (he didn't say where he saw
it) which said that Linux was the only non-M$ operating system to gain
market share last year. The same article said that this fact hasn't
been wasted on our good friends at M$, and that a whole new round of
nastiness is expected from M$ as a counter to Linux, including
punishments for resellers who get caught installing Linux on their
machines.
Naturally, I thumped my chest and said "Let 'em try," but I do wonder,
if M$ did decide to go after the Linux community in force, what might
they be able to do to us? Anything? They couldn't come to my office
and start taking down my servers, obviously, but what about making the
market a difficult place for Linux to expand?
Until recently, Linux was such an outside-the-market operation that it
would hardly matter, but these days it seems like RedHat & Friends are
eyeing the business community and other traditionally M$-dominated
camps, and we all know what can happen to a better-qualified, more
efficient OS when it comes up against the big boys.
Just wondering what other more experienced heads are thinking.
-m
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