I have no facts, just conjectures. From my 25 plus years with Microsoft, I have yet to see them come out with an original product, or a product that they did not purchase from another developer company. That includes the initial releases of MS Office. Ideas there were taken from an OS2 wordprocessor.
Microsoft paid Novell off as a sellout, but it was not really a sellout. I sincerely believe that Novell had networking patents that Microsoft violated,and it was cheaper for MS to make a deal with Novell, then to go to court. We will never know, will we? Leslie On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Jean-Francois Theroux <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Denny Stamos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Jean-Francois Theroux<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Denny Stamos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Bah Bigotry ? nope just a firm believer in free software and an OS >> >> that I dont have to reinstall every 6 months. Its good to laugh at >> >> Microsoft, god knows I put up with enough anti Linux jokes at work! >> >> they just dont learn. >> >> >> >> Anyhow...Windows7 ? Its built on top of Vista, the hardware >> >> requirements are still the same. >> > >> > Not quite. You can't run Vista on netbooks. On the other hand, you can >> run >> > Win7 on most netbooks available today. >> > >> >> Not quite. There are 2 versions of Win7, a stripped down version for >> netbooks. >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions > > Doesn't seem to be a netbook specific version. Anyhow, a friend of mine who > manages Windows machines for a living, has a lowend MSI netbook running one > of those versions smoothly. I guess I'll never know though, as I have no > intention of getting win7. > > The only OS that's more confusing with a higher number of different > versions (or derivatives) is Ubuntu ;) > > >> >> >> >> >> Leslie if you really absolutely need to run a Windows OS then by all >> >> means Windows7 will be ok. And I dont think Novell produced >> >> Windows7 ?? They probably had their input into making it more >> >> compatible with Linux. >> > >> > Leslie, please back this up with facts. >> > >> >> >> >> But really copying Ubuntu release parties?, what will they do after >> >> that? have SP1, SP2 Release parties?, yay lots of fun! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Leslie >> >> Satenstein<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > concepts wrote: >> >> >> «I hope those are tempered Windows or else a Ubuntu impact could >> make >> >> >> them shatter! >> >> >> >> >> >> Would be interesting perhaps to host one of those and be like "See, >> >> >> this >> >> >> is Windows 7, and now let's put our Ubuntu installation CD...."» >> >> >> >> >> >> Would that make it a *WINDEX* party? >> >> >> André. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I realize that we all have a leaning towards Linux, but we should not >> >> > become Linux Bigots. Microsoft is foremost a for profit company, and >> as >> >> > such, will use warfare to destroy the competition. I have not seen >> or >> >> > tried windows7, but in fact, it may be a very good product. I believe >> it >> >> > was produced by Novell for Microsoft, and uses much of the knowledge >> >> > gained from SUSE to be re-implemented in W7. >> >> > >> >> > Microsoft Office is a very good product, and it is a market leader. >> >> > Thus, to benefit from MSOffice, you may need to be under a Windows >> >> > environment. If MSOffice loses the exclusivity, through being forced >> to >> >> > support ODF, then the door is open to other software products that >> could >> >> > do better then just imitating MS word, Excel, etc. That may open the >> >> > doors a lot wider for Linux. >> >> > >> >> > If windows7 is good, it will probably become my desktop machine. It >> all >> >> > depends on costs and my business needs. >> >> > >> >> > Right now, the word on the net is that UBUNTU is what MS fears the >> >> > most. That is why the UBUNTU announcement release date was chosen by >> MS >> >> > to conflict and reduce the UBUNTU impact. (Reporters cant be in two >> >> > places at once). You can be sure that even the hours of the release >> >> > parties (and refreshments) will conflict. >> >> > >> >> > My two cents. >> >> > >> >> > Leslie >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > mlug mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > >> >> > >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Tired of WindowsXP? try Ubuntu! >> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> mlug mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > :(){ :|:& };: >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > mlug mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Tired of WindowsXP? try Ubuntu! >> http://www.ubuntu.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > > > > -- > :(){ :|:& };: > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > -- ------------------- Regards Leslie Satenstein
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