On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:54 -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > IBM is a friend of IBM, and that's it. > > Agreed. If IBM could make more money torpedoing Linux, they would do so. > > Linux almost certainly infringes on some Microsoft patents, somewhere. > The only thing that keeps Microsoft in check is the fear that if they > start exercising too much aggression, places other than the US will slap > them down.
If there were a serious threat to Linux, I believe companies like Akamai - who is *heavily* invested in Linux servers with tens of thousands of them - would jump into the fray. Interestingly, if not for Linux (and Akamai), Microslut would have no web presence at all (nore would the FBI, Whitehouse, CNN, etc., etc., etc. So, an attack on Linux by nearly any given business is an attack on the business itself as it would directly effect the Internet the way we know it today. Note also that many of the possibly patents, etc. that Microslut might go after are most likely used by other UNIX systems that are also used to drive the Internet as well as a lot of networking hardware. PGA -- The information contained in this e-mail message is confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul G. Allen Software Engineer BSIT/SE Quake Global, Inc. 858-277-7290 x285 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
