Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Annual report: Microsoft sizes up its competition
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>>| Client (PC Windows): "Competing commercial software products, including
>>| variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple Computer,
>>| Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems," Microsoft says in the latest
>>| filing. "The Linux operating system, which is also derived from Unix and is
>>| available without payment under a General Public Licence, has gained some
>>| acceptance as competitive pressures lead PC OEMs to reduce costs."
>> `----
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>> http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/119449.asp
>>
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> So, although our in-house trolls don't accept that Linux is competing on
> the desktop, apparently, the mother-ship does. I'm not sure that linux
> is derived from Unix, though, but then I suppose it depends on how you
How stupid are you? Really? Of course Linux is derived from
Unix.
http://tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/general.html#is-linux-unix
> choose to interpret the word "derive", and having seen the trolls in
> action in this group, it could be given any meaning at all!
Err,whatever.
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