> They have already done this as much as they can. I expect that MS will
> find the Linux community a bit difficult to grapple with. Linux is
> obviously 100% free of anything ever done by MS. Unless MS pulls a Wang
> and claims a patent on the concept of "operating system" (Wang, a MS
Unix was in "general use" long before M$ was born. I don't think it'll
fly.
> theory is that MS is attempting to cost Netscape as much money as possible
> in frivolous lawsuits. :)
Fortunetly, now that we have the source, even if Netscape goes down, the
browser will never die. Take that, Billy! <grin>
> There is no way they could leverage their resellers, because to my
> knowledge there are no companies that sell both MS and Linux preinstalled
> on their systems.
Anyway, it's more-or-less general knowledge that they already do, they
just don't talk about it.
> They might attempt to bully the bookstores and computer shops into not
> selling Linux CD's. This, I'm sure, would be a big hit with the Justice
> Department. Alternatively, they could stipulate in their licensing that
> sites may not use MS products concurrently with non-MS operating systems
> within the same organization (network, building, computer, whatever).
> This would probably be almost as much fun for the DoJ.
Cool...We could get rid of our five NT boxen, then! :) Seriously,
though..this could be a problem. If it meant that we couldn't use windows
95 on the sales, HR and other non-technical staff's machines. If linux
could become *really* user friendly before that point (yeahyeah, we've all
seen this debate) though *and* come up with advertising that appealed to
management (since no one has to convince the techs :) ) it could very well
be the nail in it's coffin. I *know* that there's no way in hell that an
NT machine would be able to stand up to the amount of mail our mail server
handles, or the dns servers or anything else, really.. and we'd have to
double our sysadmin staff (NT is much, much more sysadmin-intensive than
unix). Yes, I think that that could be a real bad thing for M$ to do to
themselves.
blah.
Vinnie
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