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Re: [News] Microsoft is Given Grief, Fails to Fragment Linux

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft is Given Grief, Fails to Fragment Linux
  • From: flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:36:45 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
  • References: <1770751.8Rfs9yBKQP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • User-agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:538501
In article <1770751.8Rfs9yBKQP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Microsoft's Five Stage of Linux Grief
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | What company with hugely established infrastructure doesn't seek to 
> | maintain the status quo when faced with a disruptive change? Microsoft's
> | response to Linux and open source is like a textbook case of the five 
> | stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
> `----
> 
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/microsofts_five_stages_of_linux_grief.html
> 
> Is a Linux Civil War in the Making?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | So, here we are: Microsoft is making Linux partners. Microsoft is making 
> | patent claims. Microsoft is trying to stir up controversy. But, as my 
> | grandpa might have put it, "Microsoft is still bringing cards to a 
> | horseshoes tournament." No matter how Microsoft tries to stack this 
> | deck, Microsoft is not going to win.
> `----
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2152043,00.asp
> 
> Same kernel, same packages. This is not Unix. It's GPL-licensed software, so
> everyone can use everything.
> 

Microsoft is SO screwed. Backs to the wall, no ammo, and a well armed and 
fed enemy rumbling over the hill like a storm.

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