On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:33:13 -0500 Eugene Lee writes:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:05:40AM -0200, jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za
wrote:
:
: As someone else stated in the past - IBM, to a degree, used to be the
: Microsoft of today. Lets not forget that Microsoft's earlier products
like
: MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups were, in their day, easily copied,
: installed and distributed. I remember at the time reading that Bill
Gates
: was well aware his OS was being copied like mad, he knew thousands were
: pirating his OS and he knew because of this he was gaining in
popularity.
: He was getting the market through piracy so to speak (I trust thoise of
you
: reading will understand where that statement comes from). Also
Microsoft
: was an outsider - a rebel for the people so to speak - opposing the BIG
: BLUE.
:
: It is humorous then to see Microsoft, in essence, now that it wants to
: start forcing payment and prevent pirating of its OS, that it is
suffering
: from the very same thing that made it a widely used household name. It
is
: losing to something that is relatively free and easy to share/copy,
: something that is there for the people, a rebel so to speak, an
outsider -
: Linux.
Well, it's true that neither M$ nor Linux really cares about the law.
The difference is that M$ cares about using market share to money,
while Linux cares about serving the technical needs of Linux users.
To that extent, M$ can change its legal position any day of the week
to increase its market share or decrease competitors' market share.
For M$, like every business in the world, it's all about the money.
I assume in part.
Linux being a community of largely likeminded infdividuals whose
focus is excellence not corporate timetables and pushing product before
its ready.
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