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Re: Good move from IBM.
- To: <frodo(at-nospam)sharat.co.il>
- Subject: Re: Good move from IBM.
- From: guy keren <choo(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:39:35 +0200 (EET)
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 frodo@sharat.co.il wrote:
> Definitely, the only way left to IBM and alike ot compete with MS now is
> to use Linux/OSS momentum - otherwise they find themselves 10 years behind
> at least. Actually, I wonder where they were 10 years ago- what prevented
> Netscape/IBM from making joint move and bringing Hebrew to Netscape while
> it wasn't yet too late? Rhetoric question. I have lots of them.
does the fact that netscape did not exist 10 years ago help? does the fact
that mosaic also didn't exist 10 years ago also help? :)
but i know what you mean.
this just goes to show us that there are good things regarding microsoft -
it did shake up companies that refused to work hard - now they have
competetion (from microsoft, as well as linux) that forces them to do
that.
--
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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