microsoft digging to find something wrong with tux's stable infastructure!

[raptor]

microsoft is trying to find something wrong with linux and to market the "weak strengths" (if any) of linux and using it to backpedal users from using linux software!

READ THE FULL ARTICLE:  http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/03/8/18/17358713.CFM

Microsoft is still trying.

[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]

[Faust]

Gah!  Aah!  It wont break dammit...  And this command line stuff confuses me...

(two weeks later Bill keeps seeing his engineers running through the office in "I love linux" shirts shouting "down with Windows!)

 

quote:
It also reflects how Taylor, a 10-year Microsoft veteran whose experience spans international, domestic, governmental and corporate customers, hopes to move the debate from the emotional rhetoric of Linux as "a cancer" and "unAmerican," to a discussion of price, features and other "facts," he said.

Well at least he admitted that they lie.  

[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[raptor]

i am sure http://www.linuxiso.org was busy!

[cahult]

Hah, I know why they are downloading Linux. To incorporate parts of it in the final version of Longhorn since the demo they have now doesn

[raptor]

quote:Originally posted by cahult:
Hah, I know why they are downloading Linux. To incorporate parts of it in the final version of Longhorn since the demo they have now doesn

[suselinux]

quote:Originally posted by raptor:


ya. basically.

or maybe the whole backend will be the linux kernel and the gui will be longhorn

[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]

Don't even say that.

it gives me shivers

[raptor]

had to forwarn ya. just in case it happens!

[M51DPS]

What a "great" idea from microsoft, "Let's just go and look for flaws, just like the entire open source community has been doing the whole time."

[Calum]

hey you know what? one year ago i would have said that MS couldn't use linux for their new windows OS because of the GPL, but i bet there are some people over at MS rubbing their hands and saying to themselves "now we've got our SCO Unix licence, we can do what we like with all this linux code"...

wait till they have to bribe a judge to let them off with *that* in court!

[JH]

quote:but i bet there are some people over at MS rubbing their hands and saying to themselves "now we've got our SCO Unix licence, we can do what we like with all this linux code"...

Heh. They used (and use I guess) BSD code for TCP/IP so why not to borrow something from their own property? Cheap and convinient way to innovations (brr... I've already started to hate this word)

[raptor]

since the kernel is copyrighted to torvalds and is under GNU license it would have to be distributed for free!

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by JH:


Heh. They used (and use I guess) BSD code for TCP/IP so why not to borrow something from their own property? Cheap and convinient way to innovations (brr... I've already started to hate this word)

I don't see what's so bad about using the BSD TCP/IP stack. It's a very well written one, it performs well, and Microsoft is NOT the only company using it.

[Faust]

Yeah I think BSD uses it too.    Still they could at least give credit where it's due.  You know, use someone elses cool thing, say "this thing is cool thats why we use it" instead of pretending you made it?