OSDL CEO: Microsoft Has to Accept Linux

PenguinCandidate writes "The OSDL's Stuart Cohen has been in the news lately following a clandestine meeting with Microsoft about a dubiously independent TCO study; a study that has since been rejected by the OSDL. The idea of an independent Windows/Linux TCO comparison may be dead, but did Cohen have an additional card up his sleeve? In this interview, Cohen states that while he "awaits the reply from MS's Martin Taylor on the results of his internal investigation" into how an off-the-record meeting became public, he will continue to promote his belief that MS will eventually have to accept Linux as customer demand increases."

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Deep Penguin

[Stanistani]

Did he meet the MS fellow in a parking garage at night after carefully placing a flag in a potted plant on his patio, then receiving the "meet" time in his delivered newspaper?

Wow, so which is it?

[LegendOfLink]

First was IBM's results claiming Linux TCO was lowest, now it doesn't matter!?

OK, let's base it off something else...maybe security? Oh wait, I got it, who has the easiest to configure applications?

No...it has to be something more. Maybe we should see who has the better mascot. I think that's Linux, considering Windows doesn't really have a mascot; although personally I think I'd vote for Windows is their mascot was a caricature of Bill Gates getting pied in the face.

5 stages

[pizza_milkshake]

• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Ultimate Acceptance

Microsoft is somewhere around 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief

Microsoft Accept Linux??

[Eric Damron]

Exactly when did hell freeze over?!

Total Cost to 0wn someone's Windows box is lower

[chmilar]

Given the networks of tens or hundreds of thousands of zombie Windows computers, it is clear that the Total Cost to 0wn (TC0) some AOL user's Windows PC is very, very low.

I doubt you can 0wn a Linux box as cheaply.