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From: Hal (DCI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux
>Personally, I stay away from ANY
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
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> To me, an IBM link could be best, even if it never totally grasps the GPL
> and makes all its addons proprietary. (The company's recent endorsement of
> Apache makes me think that they *do* get it, though.) IBM's embrace of
> Java, the l
> notice what's in the win98 resource kit ... "grep" "ls -al" ...
If Bill Gates wants to match Linus Torvald's contribution to the
community, what he has to do is provide /usr/src/win9x so that users
are empowered to set up their machines however they may wish, up to
and including replacing those
notice what's in the win98 resource kit .. or plus pack . or one of those
rediculous addon packs of fluff.. a "posix pack" type thing.. now you
can do "grep" and "ls -al" in win98 !! weee !
joel
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote:
> Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
> >
Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote:
>
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/1,3440,2115444,00.html
>
> Microsoft strategy has consistently indicated that the technologies they
> actively dismiss one year are the ones they work like hell to embrace,
>