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M$ taking their ball and going home.
Bazoukas:
ooohh noooo,,,i am in tears,,,,,,the feeeeear,,,,the paaaaaaanic.......oh wait,,,Linux will get a biger boost at all levels (dev wise) and will be shiped at every SW store in the world....
,,,ah ok,,,,doesnt sound that bad.
Umm when they gonna do that? Ill help them out to close their factory..i will i wiil,,i promise.
TB:
M$ to stop shipping windows?? Shit, they may as well open source it too.........but we all know that's just a very nice dream.........
Bateluer:
Hmmm . . . I have ISOs of all windows OSs . . . if they stop shipping it, maybe I can make some money?
Tux:
quote:I actually think we would need to withdraw the Windows product from the marketplace.
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I think thats the smartest thing m$ has ever said.
And you know the end is nearing with half assed threats like these ones.
quote: you know, this year there will be something like 120, 130 million people around the world who buy new computers with Windows, who use those to manage their day-to-day business,their home lives, deliver healthcare information. All of those consumers would be, of course, grievously harmed by the proposal of the nonsettling states.
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Is this supposed to be a threat? If any thing m$ withdrawing their supposed "OS" would help more then harm, cause then people would have to switch to something that accually does what they want it to, the only harm is see from this proposal is to slick billys wallet...and i know he wont stand for that.
[ March 25, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]
Calum:
people could still use windows! (probably until about 2028 when we will find out that windows can't count past that year or something like that) and it would not be a big upheaval if windows stopped shipping! one by one, people would switch to free UNIX variants in businesses and then in homes. the fact of this happening would give the commercial unix developers and linux vendors the kick up the arse to make the stuff properly user friendly. (at the moment linux vies with windows for user friendliness, although it's far superior in most other ways)
It won't shock anybody either, because the first people to switch to unix would be the ones who kind of know what they are doing already or are willing to learn, then everybody else would just learn by osmosis, in a similar fashion to the way everybody learnt how to use windows.
Sadly, as i say, it won't happen. windows will continue to ship and the thing about whether or not unix will replace it is now in the hands of businesses, and then home users.
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