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Is Microsoft Linux inevitable?

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jrich4:
The Linux GNU General Public Licesne states that any code developed under it must be made feely available. Under the BSD open-source license you do not have to make the source code freely available. For comercial developers the BSD license is better for them to be able to make a profit.

Faust:
When they realize that Windows is doomed to a slow deathe they'll probably just take the BSD code base, slap some crap programs on top of it, advertise the hell out of it, claim that all the good features they took from the bsds are their own and "new", and then get a massive portion of the market because people are stupid.

idlepython3:
Winux?  i think i will have to put my head through my monitor if i have to see that.  penguins are our friends, we must protect them from the evil ones who would rather have them captured or destroyed than allow them to just be happy and run free from captivity.

Calum:
winsux.

on my computer, i have 3 OSs, freebsd 4.7, red hat 9.0 and dr-dos 7.03 (with ms windows for workgroups 3.11, the calmira II desktop environment and a lot of gnu tools), now as i said elsewhere, i think if the calmira people and the freedos people could meet in the middle, a fully open source windowsalike could be realistic. at first it would simply be like OS/2 with all the benefits of the open source model, but i wonder how long it would take for it to overtake windows...

all they need to do is come up with some GUI for FreeDOS that will replace mswindows 3.11 and they're off. perhaps some version of xfree86.

suselinux:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
winsux.

on my computer, i have 3 OSs, freebsd 4.7, red hat 9.0 and dr-dos 7.03 (with ms windows for workgroups 3.11, the calmira II desktop environment and a lot of gnu tools), now as i said elsewhere, i think if the calmira people and the freedos people could meet in the middle, a fully open source windowsalike could be realistic. at first it would simply be like OS/2 with all the benefits of the open source model, but i wonder how long it would take for it to overtake
windows....
all they need to do is come up with some GUI for FreeDOS that will replace mswindows 3.11 and they're off. perhaps some version of xfree86.
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great idea, but as soon as they finished Windows Would DRM there entire ptoduct line

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