[vox] FWD: How Linux helps Microsoft

[Ken Bloom]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:58:58AM -0700, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I was sent this link by someone I know who is decidely anti-Linux.
> 
> http://www.forbes.com/2004/08/31/cz_dl_0831msft.html
> 
> I'd like to know what vox-ites would say to this article. It appears 
> pretty slanted, but the one point I like is that Microsoft (and it's 
> customers!) will benefit from competition. Linux is the only OS to give 
> them a run for their money.
> 
> Here is an excerpt:
> 
> "Microsofties say they were more worried about Linux a few years ago, 

Yeah, right. Microsoft's behavior has not been consistent with this.

> when it was a truly free program, spreading on its own, from user to 
> user, like a virus. Now that Linux costs real money, and is sold by 
> buttoned-down blue suits from IBM and Novell, Microsoft feels more 
> confident. Microsoft has beaten these guys, badly, in operating system 
> wars before."
> 


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