* Rex Ballard fired off this tart reply:
>> - Windows as primary O/S
>
> Yes. Clearly Microsoft is very threatened by VMWare Player, and even
> offering free copies of Virtual PC wasn't enough to stop the spread of
> VMWare Player. To make matters worse, VMWare Converter has made it
> trivially easy to create a VMWare player file-set for your existing
> Windows system, install Linux, and then use VMWare player to put
> Windows on one of your many Virtual Desktops.
Cool. Didn't know about Converter. I guess Microsoft is afraid to
scream bloody murder about it (the tactic that backfired with Linux
<grin>).
> Microsoft has begun to discover that beating Linux is like playing
> "Bop the Beaver". Knock out Corel, and SUSE pops up. Knock out
> Caldera and Linspire pops up. Knock out SUSE and Ubuntu pops up.
> There are 100 Linux distributions, and even if Microsoft is able to
> "bop" one of them, there are 99 more just waiting to take the leader's
> place.
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