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...