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Re: [News] Microsoft's Linux overture: More sizzle, less steak

__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 02 June 2006 12:24 \__

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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 02 June 2006 08:27 \__
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Microsoft's Linux overture: More sizzle, less steak
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>>>>| While Microsoft is making sudden overtures to Linux users, the
>>>>| open-source community has long been interested in helping bridge the
>>>>| divide. About 10 years ago, a number of developers started a project
>>>>| called Wine, in which they rewrote raw source code in a language called
>>>>| C that, in a sense, cloned Windows 3.x and Win32 application
>>>>| programming interfaces so that they could be run on Unix computers. Mr.
>>>>| Leibovitch says as Windows has evolved, Wine is still progressing --
>>>>| but not with any help from Microsoft.
>>>>| 
>>>>| "They've done a pretty good job, especially on the server side," he
>>>>| says. "The problem is there are so many undocumented things about
>>>>| the Microsoft environment, it's a moving target."
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060601.TWEINSIDER01/TPStory/Business
>>> 
>>> Fascinating spin.  It's a kind of 'if you need Linux, don't worry, we'll
>>> host it for you on Windows'...
>> 
>> Better join the party while it's hip. This says something about
>> Microsoft's take on Open Source: "It's not going away. It is taking over
>> (our servers)."
>> 
> 
> In spite of the somewhat fantastic writings of some of our resident
> trolls, MS are well aware of what's going on.  They're just hoping
> nobody else will notice, especially the stockbrokers...

Some time in December 2004 (or January 2005) there was a press conference, or
perhaps a meetup with MSFT investors. One guy in the audience asked Ballmer
something along the lines of "but what about Linux?". Ballmer laughed like a
little girl and by doing just that (the "*ridicule*, then fight, then lose"
phrase springs to mine), he spread FUD. So, indeed as you say, there is an
attempt the mask the truth.

Ballmer once said about Linux (in a similar scenario) "are you going to trust
some guy from China?". Given _OPEN SOURCE_ projects like Apache, I would
never choose to trust "some programmer from Redmond". They sweep everything
under the carpet and it shows (a DDOS vulnerability in Windows was announced
today). I can recall a certain blunder back in 1997-ish when the
spellchecker in Office corrected "I want to kill Bill Gates" with "I'll
drink to that". Mischievous programmers are harboured by closed-source
development models.

Anyhoo, I drift off topic again...

Best wishes,

Roy

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