Do you think they'll go for PVM or DIPC?:-) This reminds me of the krikkit(sp?) wars in Hitch-Hikers Guide, and the dust-cloud around their home planet, was Hector its name?
Talk to Microsoft executives and they'll tell you that a similar fate awaits Linux. Charles Fitzgerald, director of business development in Microsoft's software development unit, says the Linux hype has already peaked. ''Cold hard reality is coming to bear,'' he says.
Apart from anything else they frequently "talk to M$ executives" and don't seem to be aware that maybe they might be biased to some teeny extent. And from the quote later in the article from Redhat I can only assume this is pro-M$ slanted. Much as I can believe a Redhat rep may have said that quote, I can't believe it was the most positive quote they got from them, it practically says "Linux is almost entirely hype, we're entirely surprised it's done this well, it was nice while it lasted and now we're going to go under". I don't think so.
Conquering The World 101. They've done it before, they'll try it again. Unfortunately.
The difference this time is that if they cut market share in linux, they can't bankrupt it. It's a bit like the hydra (cut one head off and another one (or two?) grow back in its place, except with less of the negative connotations:-)
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Do you think they'll go for PVM or DIPC? :-)
This reminds me of the krikkit(sp?) wars in Hitch-Hikers Guide, and the dust-cloud around their home planet, was Hector its name?
Tom
Apart from anything else they frequently "talk to M$ executives" and don't seem to be aware that maybe they might be biased to some teeny extent. And from the quote later in the article from Redhat I can only assume this is pro-M$ slanted. Much as I can believe a Redhat rep may have said that quote, I can't believe it was the most positive quote they got from them, it practically says "Linux is almost entirely hype, we're entirely surprised it's done this well, it was nice while it lasted and now we're going to go under".
I don't think so.
Hudson
The difference this time is that if they cut market share in linux, they can't bankrupt it. It's a bit like the hydra (cut one head off and another one (or two?) grow back in its place, except with less of the negative connotations :-)
Hudson