On January 29, 2002 09:02 am, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2002 7:45 am, Joel Hammer wrote: > > This is really interesting. MS is taking linux seriously. This means that > > we will see increasing incompatibility between MS and linux software, > > like samba. Just minor stuff, but enuf to make using a samba server not > > worth the trouble. And, expect to see more problems in translating MS > > documents into non-MS software, too. > > > > Why not. There are billions of dollars at stake. > > I fully expect that some day in the not too distant future, there will be a > 'Microsoft Internet' and an Internet for the rest of us. They're going to > make it happen. >
Bill already did that. Flash back to 1995... When MSN first started it was conceived of as a giant private network. Popularity of the Internet was still ramping up and Netscape owned the browser space. Try as Microsoft might, they couldn't compete with the booming success of the Internet, so MSN was revamped to become a service *on* the Internet and Microsoft increased even further their efforts to seriously dominate the browser space by starting to offer their browser free. Now things have gone full circle. With .Net MS looks to make a stab at establishing significant control over the Internet - or at least the software content people are running over it. Bill's ultimate goal will be realized. -- burns _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
