On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:41:30 -0500, Fred A. Miller said: | The "ball" is in the Linux communities court, and the success or failure | Linux enjoys, or suffers, WILL be determined by us, NOT MickySoft nor | anyone else. Do *not* underestimate the power of marketing! We techies, we are not marketeers and that is a side which is a prominent factor in communication to manegerial positions. I don't doubt or ignore the path that has been set the last year by the open source movement but it will be on very slow pace We don't need ESR. We need a shipload of him... -- ---------------------------------------------------- Koos Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available
Hi all, I wonder why there is so much concern the MS$ and how they decide to face off against their competitors. The strategy of spreading propaganda usually starts when the originator has reached the end of the innovation path, and sees that their only means of survival is attack. IMHO, the Open Source movement, and Unix software user base, spanning all the Linux ports, FreeBSD etc will eventually be the defacto way modern software will be developed. MS$ is really too stubborn to realise that it has reached the end of an era, and is on the downhill skids. This is the law that seems to govern all companies - sooner, or later... As the Open Source movement, we should keep away from the politics, and keep focused on what we do best - develop & work with Open Source software - MS$ will eventually see to their own demise! ---------------------------------------------- Koos Pol wrote:
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:41:30 -0500, Fred A. Miller said:
| The "ball" is in the Linux communities court, and the success or failure | Linux enjoys, or suffers, WILL be determined by us, NOT MickySoft nor | anyone else.
Do *not* underestimate the power of marketing! We techies, we are not marketeers and that is a side which is a prominent factor in communication to manegerial positions. I don't doubt or ignore the path that has been set the last year by the open source movement but it will be on very slow pace
We don't need ESR. We need a shipload of him...
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