DeMoN LaG wrote: > > "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01 Dec 2001: > >> > >> Yeah... Sure. You seem to imply that the Mac going bye bye would > >> affect Unix somehow? The Mac does not compete in the same market > >> as Unix. The Mac has no bearing on Unix at all. > > > > Yes, I am - because if Apple was gone, Gates could consentrate > > all his efforts at buying up or killing open source for UNIX and > > other products. You better thank your lucky stars tha Mac is > > around. Its a deversion for Mr Gates to not place 100% of his > > efforts against UNIX and Open Source. > > You can't "buy up" Unix. Hell, let Bill Gates try to take on Unix in > the server market. Never happen. Unix is too powerful. And since it's > open source, you can take plain vanilla unix and craft it to anything to > suit your needs. Can't do that with any MS product. Bring it on, Mr. > Gates, Open Source is here to stay and there is no way Microsoft could > eliminate *nix (MS has been trying to eliminate Linux for years, still > not happening. In fact, Linux has *gained* market share) > > -- > ICQ: N/A (temporarily) > AIM: FlyersR1 9 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ = m
I seriously hope you are right. But then when the US Government took him on I thought he'd be broken up into a thousand little piece like the phone company. But no he has bambuzzled the Feds and all they did was "hey don't do that" and whacked him on the wrist with a ruler. What should have been done was Allowed him to keep the MS operating system only and all other products and influences would have to sold or given to other software vendors. Even IE/OE/Entourage should not have beeen spared. To me anyone with "that" much power. Is down right scary. His influence caused Symantec to kill Derinia FaxPro on the Mac. There are litterally hundreds of faxing software on the PC. Delrina FaxPro was among the best ever on the Mac Platform (one of only three) and would have given Apple something to give Microsoft a run for their money. But, due to influence from Microsoft Delrina was promptly killed within a month of purchase by symantec. Even though in a notice sent around by owner and staff of Delrina that Symantec had committed to years of continued development and support, or else they would not have sold to them. The Faxpro line still exist on the PC side of things. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:275-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/america/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/message/default.htm
