[svlug] Microsoft taking notice of free rivals Linux, Apache

[javilk@polly.mall-net.com]

> 
> >> > If GNU [sued Microsoft]
> 
> OK folks, Microsoft is the big bad wolf, but do you really think they would
> steal the source code to Linux and openly defy a copyright? I couldn't
> imagine the protests ever dying in the trade press, ever.
> But, let's suppose they do. Think of the statement that would make:
> 	We here at Microsoft can't make software worth crap, so
> 	we needed to steal a superior software product. But, we
> 	modified it, and added the Microsoft touch to it.
> People would be laughing all the way to their Red Hat distribution.

    Not at all.  They have the position to act as rather prolific
distributiors of Linux if they should choose to do so. If they bundle
everything available, and include the source code, we could not stop them.
After all, Red Hat is already selling it for $50, Caldera is selling it
for even more.  So...

     In fact, all it would take for them to do a really bang up job of
stealing Linux's thunder, is to add a real Windows emulator to the
package.

> Oh, btw: the tech columnist at the SJ Mercury might show up to one of our
> InstallFests, he doesn't want to lug his huge monitor there though. But, he
> wouldn't tell me when he's coming :(

     Well... he should bring a lap top.  And some of us would like to know
when he is coming...

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