"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
>
> What's happening, is what some of us were afraid of.
>
> Fred
It means nothing. Companies have come and companies have gone. Linux
wasn't tied to Netscape, but Netscape came to Linux late in a desperate
attempt to save itself. Netscape couldn't compete against M$ after M$
started giving away IE for free, cutting off Netscape's major revenue
stream, because they didn't have the OS club to bludgeon vendors with.
Linux has shredded the OS club M$ was swinging around because M$ still
has to generate income to pay overhead and stock owners. That is
probably why it split up, to isolate the OS group from the applications
groups. To get lean and more mean. M$ still has a lot of momentun and
can continue to run for a while. Shucks, even DOS is still being used
on 386 and 486 PC's. Windows didn't kill DOS, and Linux won't wipe
windows totally out. But, Linus created the silver bullet that hit the
heart of the blood-sucking vampire... the message just hasn't traveled
all the way to the brain yet.
JLK
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Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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