[ Thanks to David F.
Skoll for this link. ]
“Given their assertion during their anti-trust trial that
Linux is a serious competitor to Microsoft Windows, their latest
article is surprising. Not only that, it is full of misleading
and inaccurate information. In this article, I will examine and
rebut the Microsoft statements.”
“Microsoft claims that Linux relies on 30-year-old operating
system technology and architecture… The fact is that UNIX has
been continually evolving since its inception, and modern UNIXes,
while retaining the excellent and proven UNIX design principles,
are vastly different from the early systems…”
“Microsoft deliberately eschewed UNIX design principles in order
to make NT different (not better). They hoped that by propagating a
proprietary design, they could lock people in to their
closed-source product. They very nearly succeeded…”