Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-17 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Monday 18 March 2002 06:58 am, Mike Andrew wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:19:40 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I'd finally will be able to get protel for Linux. After all, if there is no OS to base your product on then in order to survive you'll have to port your

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-15 Thread M.W.Chang [linuxism]
It cannot happen. there is a black market out there that're the real supporters and believers of M$ products. Zoran wrote: *** According to Newsforge, M'soft is threatening to stop shipping Windows if... http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/05/0232253mode=thread -- May the Force

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
As in, 'I'm gonna hold by breath until I die.' I thought that was the new distribution model anyway. It is because of this possability that the Chinese government went with Linux. They did not want to base a very important part of their infrastructure on one company's product, a product that

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Thursday 14 March 2002 12:40 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: As in, 'I'm gonna hold by breath until I die.' I thought that was the new distribution model anyway. It is because of this possability that the Chinese government went with Linux. They did not want to base a very important part

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:19:40 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one reasonable snip ...I'd finally will be able to get protel for Linux. After all, if there is no OS to base your product on then in order to survive you'll have to port your programs to an OS that does exist. I can

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:35:06 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if it never came to pass that MicroSoft withdrew their OS of the day... I'm willing to bet that there will be more defections to Linux based just on the comments of Balmer. Imagine the balls this guy has... or

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:42:43 -0500 Marvin Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:35:06 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if it never came to pass that MicroSoft withdrew their OS of the day... I'm willing to bet that there will be more defections to Linux

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:56:01 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using your model. There does exisit another stream of water near by, it's jusat a tad bit farther for the sheep to walk to... it's called the stream of life in those parts of the farm belt... here it's called linux.

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Thursday 14 March 2002 07:32 pm, Marvin Dickens wrote: I do not like BG, Balmer and company. Furthermore, both BG and Balmer have proven time and time again that given the opportunity, they willingly break laws: Laws that if any of us broke, the result would be an extended stay in a Grey