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Re: SPAM: Re: [SLE] Microsoft to sell SuSE?
  • From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:32:03 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <ho8xistxcs.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
M Harris <harrismh777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
>> > believing that people LIKE windoze... DONT THEY GET IT!!! .... the reason
>> > we run Linux is because we HATE windoze....
>>
>> That may be the reason why you run linux, but it's hardly a reason for
>> major corporations, and this announcement is aimed squarely at major
>> corporations
>>
>> A CTO would be fired on the spot if he played by emotions
> Who are you trying to kid?
>
> Corporations hate windoze. Ask any of the corporations which have been
> skewered by M$, or ask any of the corporations (or non emotional individuals)
> involved in M$ anti-trust class action lawsuits (like the one in Minnesota
> for example) or ask any of the millions of corporate managers across America
> who are hamstrung by the M$ "corporate parasite" that crashes and burns
> (literally) millions of hours of person-productive time. Oh, they hate
> windoze assuredly. But they say it differently...

But still cooperations have to interact with MS software - and now
they can more easily have Linux interact with MS, so it should be a
win for them,

Andreas
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