[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“Rumors say MS has over 30 people by now dedicated to
`’combating Linux’ as you can tell from various trade magazine
articles. I even met a new MS marketeer in a party and she
mentioned they all got this training on how to position NT vs.
Linux… Of course, it is a misguided attempt and has no way to
actually work…”
“Linux has been following a very repeatable pattern in the
history of technology, namely the commoditization of key
pieces of the infrastructure of computing. In all previous cases,
virtually without exception, the technology that came from below,
even if it was inferior in certain respects, which Linux arguably
isn’t, has eventually won over the established alternatives.”