Didn't the anti-trust agreement that Intel reached with the DoJ, a year or so ago forbid this kind of thing?
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I also live in Ottawa and work for Nortel Networks... and we too have ADSL through Sympatico. All in all the experience has been good, it was easy to setup, always works, and it's fast! We were one of the "earlier" subscribers, so we don't have the 1-Meg modem, which means that we have slightly faster upsteam and downstream transfer rates.
Exactly, the problem with this comparison is that Java was an untried technology that SUN decided to throw their marketing muscle into. Linux on the other hand is a prooven technology and is succeeding on its own merits.
It's like PUSH technology... everybody said that it would be the future of the browser, but it was all hype and did nothing for the end user. Generally, if hype preceeds a product, then it is going nowhere... if the product itself generates the hype, then you've got a winner.
The other thing I see being on Linux's side, which MS seems to think is unimportant is how much it is used in university's and by students. If these students are taught programming and OS concepts on Linux, then what are they going to prefer when they start to work in the real world? The students of today are the IT professionals of tomorrow.
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Didn't the anti-trust agreement that Intel reached with the DoJ, a year or so ago forbid this kind of thing?
I also live in Ottawa and work for Nortel Networks... and we too have ADSL through Sympatico. All in all the experience has been good, it was easy to setup, always works, and it's fast! We were one of the "earlier" subscribers, so we don't have the 1-Meg modem, which means that we have slightly faster upsteam and downstream transfer rates.
Exactly, the problem with this comparison is that Java was an untried technology that SUN decided to throw their marketing muscle into. Linux on the other hand is a prooven technology and is succeeding on its own merits.
It's like PUSH technology... everybody said that it would be the future of the browser, but it was all hype and did nothing for the end user. Generally, if hype preceeds a product, then it is going nowhere... if the product itself generates the hype, then you've got a winner.
The other thing I see being on Linux's side, which MS seems to think is unimportant is how much it is used in university's and by students. If these students are taught programming and OS concepts on Linux, then what are they going to prefer when they start to work in the real world? The students of today are the IT professionals of tomorrow.
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