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Microsoft Rep To Keynote Unix Conference
An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNET Microsoft is going to be keynoting the Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group conference. From the article: '"Don't be put off by Chris' Microsoft badge -- he is actually a long time Unix hacker," the user group said today in a statement updating users on presentations at the conference ... Green, Microsoft's local Unix Interoperability and High Performance Computing specialist, will update the conference on his company's "Unix and open source-related activities, including their efforts to provide a POSIX environment in Windows, and to integrate Windows and Unix systems."'"
Check out this site http://www.payfornothing.com/ for more information about this conference, how to get free tix, etc.
a Unix or BSD clone?
Sounds like it to me.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
I wish I had mod points...to mod you up though. Sorry.
So this is why most open source apps are exact copies of their Windows counterparts(The UI especially)? Or why sourceforge is a graveyard of projects which have been abandoned due to disinterest?
I know you'll point to firefox and give me a speech about the things Open Source is doing right.. But my copy of Firefox will probably crash before I get a chance to read it. Afterall, not every system can run a browser that sucks up 300 megs of memory.
Yep... Thats a smart argument.
I found a dumpster full of half eaten moldy food out behind a McDonalds, and it was inherently better than the steak dinner I had to pay for simply because it was free.
Just because something is free does not mean that it is "inherently better" than something that you have to pay for.