Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (470 mails)

[Sergei Klink <sklink@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 3, 2004 01:13 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:

---snip out the NOW irrelevant stuff ;)---

> I have come across certain documents created on later versions of
> Windows that can't be opened in Windows 95. You can use Microsoft
> or whatever you like, no one will beat you up for choosing what you
> like. "Linux will never ....", "Linux won't ....", "Linux can't",
> etc. never stopped the guys from writing the code and not caring
> one bit what gets written or said and I don't see them ever giving
> up and sitting sadly down with cans of beer in front of a TV set,
> saying "Oh dear, we've lost". MS knows that and that's why they've
> spent $100m U.S advertising Linux, ssshhhhh! don't tell MS what
> they are doing, it certainly brings a smile to my face to see these
> adverts on linuxtoday.com and other Linux sites.

Hehe, maybe they just don't have much choice - the guy(s) who came up 
with the campaign needed to show he(they) is/are doing something, and 
that was the easiest to do and explain to the bosses thing to do, 
besides $100m or even $1b isn't going to burn a big hole in their 
pockets...