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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> How windows anti Linux strategy will backfire in 2009
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>> | Microsoft has a strategy aimed at converting Linux/Unix users to windows,
>> | this is obvious because they are creating the tools and extensions to
>> | windows that resemble Linux.
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>> | Microsoft likes to see open source coming to windows,
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> I don't believe that last sentence is true at all.
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> MS would rather the open-source apps be peculiar to Linux. That way
> there is little interest in them from developers other than Linux
> developers. Then Windows developers /stay/ Windows developers rather
> than cross-platform developers, and the development of open source apps
> receives far less effort. And there will be little interest in the apps
> from users other than Linux users. That way Windows users /stay/
> Windows users.
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> IMO one of the worst mistakes MS ever made was to port Word to Macintosh.
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> Cross-platform apps move users toward the less-used OS.
I think it's an antitrust consideration.
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