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Re: The ARRL, Microsoft, and UNIX

Dave Michelson (davem@ee.ubc.ca)
Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:56:57 -0800 (PST)

Peter Wright wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. What I was wondering about was anything Bill Gates
> or Microsoft has said Directly about Linux. They have lots to say about
> Netscape and Java, but I haven't seen them say much about Linux of BSD.

Bill makes a point of not bad-mouthing potential employees. And many
Linux/FreeBSD fans fall into that category.

Note, however, what Microsoft said when Netscape announced plans to
GPL the Navigator source code: How could any business trust software
developed or improved by a loose collection of hackers collaborating
over the Internet? No, for reliable code, you need to deal with a
big company like Microsoft.

I don't know whether to ROTFL or cry.

> > 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.
>
> You know I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

I agree. But it's a measure of Microsoft's real concern that they're
avoiding any mention of GNU or Linux/FreeBSD. While offering deals
like free copies of NT for students.

-- 
Dave Michelson   
davem@ee.ubc.ca