Re: Microsoft finally guns for Linux

["Soumya" <soumya@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

:-( Some people can't understand the difference between variety and
mutation.

Different kernel = mutation.
Different feature = variety.

I think some Linux people should teach the great BG on high school
fundamentals.

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 Soumya
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-----Original Message-----
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, November 04, 2000 10:51 PM
Subject: [LIG] Microsoft finally guns for Linux


>Thanks to my friend Soundara Rajan for drawing attention to this. FN
>
>From:    soundara rajan <nssr@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Microsoft finally guns for Linux
>
>Microsoft finally guns for Linux
>Thursday 26th October
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>
>Underneath this however Microsoft puts the boot in with the tag line that
>read, 'An operating system does not just have advantages' followed by the
>sucker-punch 'It can mutate unexpectedly. But with Windows 2000, you get
all
>of the services and support from the same vendor. That will save time and
real
>money.' Pretty heavyweight stuff for Microsoft.
>
>However, there is one fairly fundamental problem with Microsoft's campaign,
>that will be run in the popular German 'c't' magazine. That problem is
quite
>obviously that Microsoft isn't really in much of a position to comment.
Having
>come to market with more variations of its  operating system than most of
us
>would care to remember, it's hardly in a position to talk about operating
>systems mutating. But = presumably that irony is lost on Microsoft.
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