On Saturday 07 October 2006 13:56, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > Possibly because Microsoft used illegal means to get PC manufacturers > to ship only Microsoft based operating systems (until the anti-trust > lawsuit).
I am well aware of the arm twisting tactics that M$ has employed over the years. I had stated that figure as a fact. > The nastiest way to deal with Windows users is to refuse to support > MS Office formats. *Shrug*. As long as _you_ (generic you) support MS > Office formats, and reimplement MS protocols, you are supporting the > Microsoft empire. May be someone should run rm -Rf on samba eh? haha. But then it'll just mean that Linux will perish from the desktop market. > Oh, and RMS is a politician. Did you make the mistake of thinking > that the FSF was a _technical_ foundation? He is not a politician or a marketing guy or the "spokes person" of FSF. Thats exactly why he should be careful about what he says. Diplomacy can get you anywhere - well almost ;) -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
