Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux....

1998-06-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Hal (DCI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 11:00 AM Subject: Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux >Personally, I stay away from ANY

Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux....

1998-06-27 Thread Hal \(DCI\)
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Evan Leibovitch wrote: [Major Snip] > 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

Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux....

1998-06-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
> 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

Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux....

1998-06-26 Thread Joel Robert Oliveira
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: > > >

Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux....

1998-06-26 Thread W. Wade, Hampton
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, >