Ya, I read that one earlier toiday. Seems M$ is getting desperate and has decided to troll the Linux conventions. I don't really think they will have much success. And the other thing is that they are probably using this to spy and see if they can get a jump on any strategies and "innovations" that the OSource community is planning or has in place. I think that the catch they're using to get in is their Unix services for windows (or vice verse - what ever). It is something that should be turn on them. Find out what the Unix service they offering, pick it apart, and generally get them isolated. Then they won't be able to move about without it being very obvious what they're doing. I'm sure the M$ techies are have a great time in such a welcoming and warm atmosphere. Cheers, Curtis. On Monday 20 January 2003 23:11, Matthew Johnson wrote:
This is disgusting:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28936.html
Its time IDC changed the show rules, a simple question like, "what do you have that runs on Linux?". If they have nothing they should not get a booth.
There not there for the goodwill of Linux one bit.
Matt
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