META Predicts Linux Software From Microsoft in 2004

trandles writes "According to this story at NYTimes (FRYYY), META Group is reporting that Microsoft will begin selling Linux software in 2004. It also goes on to report that a META Group study comes to the same conclusion as the earlier (MS-funded) IDC study that Linux has a higher TCO than MS solutions for some applications." Remember, this is speculation on the part of META, and has to do with back-end software, not Office. (But if Microsoft wanted to, they could become the world's biggest producer of Linux software.)

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Re:Cool

[egreB]

Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish.
Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries.

The man only owes you a fish if you demand it back. The ideal solution would be to give a man fish while you learn him to how to fish, so that he won't starve to death before he can fish for himself. Then demand nothing back.

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[Junior J. Junior III]

How can you enslave everyone in your corporate empire if you don't demand the fish back?

Ideally, you should also be charging interest on the fish, at a rate such that, even if he does somehow manage to learn how to fish, he'll be stuck for the rest of his life paying off that first fish you gave him.