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> > Lots of people are doing this, even Windows NT people (I'm on a Windows > > NT mailing list, and it's amazing how many of them talk about Linux). You > > will not get any help from Microsoft, who seem to be actively hostile to > > Unix in general and Linux in particular (gee, I can't imagine why!) > Linux in particular? How so? Are there any signs that show they think > it's a threat? Are they even tracking it's development? Thinking of > ways to foil it? It's more of a mindset. They can conceive (albeit reluctantly) of valid reasons to run a commercial UNIX instead of NT (for example, as a firewall). The idea of a free UNIX seems to be too much to take. I'd guess that officially they consider Linux beneath their notice. Curiously, I did correspond with a guy from Microsoft who told me that NTEmacs is somewhat popular at Microsoft (maybe 2% of the programmer's use it, as measured by an internal mailing list). I wonder if they have a similar list for Linux? :-) Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Breton pbreton at cs.umb.edu PGP key by finger ========================================================================= Shave the whales!
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