On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you wrote:
I think it's obvious that MS wants to rule the world and take over as many
corporation. I hope that they lose the case in the lawsuits.
> Talking about MS & Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was
> running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT
> couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to
> solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix.
>
> Robert.
>
>
> >From: Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
> >Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500
> >
> >In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge -
> >especially a full blown productivity app...
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
> >
> >
> >
> > > hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as
> >linux
> > > goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own
> >distribution
> > > of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I
> >can't
> > > believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at home (or
> >at
> > > work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running
> > > somewhere in that company.
> >
> >Just a thought here. Corel has successfully (not in my opinion but in the
> >minds of some) ported their Office suite to Linux using Wine. If you dig
> >very
> >deeply you find that within MS there's a debate about whether they
> >should/shouldn't produce MS Office for Linux. Could there be a connection?
> >Spin is everything these days it seems. Just thought I'd suggest that this
> >story might have a positive spin in the end.
> >
> >Cheers --- Larry
> >
> >
>
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