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Re: The ARRL, Microsoft, and UNIX

Dave Michelson (davem@ee.ubc.ca)
Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:09:46 -0800 (PST)

Peter Wright wrote:
>
> Have you ever noticed that Bill Gates hasn't made much comment about Linux
> over the past few years? ..... [munch] .....
> And linux gets featured regularly in Byte, PC World and PC Mag.
> So why hasn't Bill Gates said/done anything to stop this? Its got to be
> eating into his buisness and from what I've heard (I have no proof of
> this) more ISPs are using Linux then using Windows NT.

Actually, he has. Microsoft is so scared of the Linux/UNIX following
among university students that they're now giving away *free copies*
of Windows NT 4.0 workstation to students who purchase at least one MS
software development package (e.g., Visual C++, Visual Basic, etc.).

(See http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/programs.htm for all the
details.)

First Netscape was targeted, now Linux/FreeBSD. <sigh>

Another factoid: Microsoft has *released* Internet Explorer for
Solaris and will shortly release versions for Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX,
IBM's AIX, and Silicon Graphics' SGI IRIX. However, Linux, FreeBSD et
al. are strangely absent from the list of platforms to be supported.

-- 
Dave Michelson                       
davem@ee.ubc.ca