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Re: MS supporting linux?



On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:58:42PM +0200, dgi_il@hotmail.com wrote:
> At sunday in Zombit, I heard that Mircrosoft invested in Corel, and then
> Corel went deeeper into linux. Now Word has no competition (at leaast in the
> Win32 platform). But Corel is also also one of the biggests programmers of
> WINE. So it leads me to 2 points:

I think Corel has recently announced quiting the Linux business and has
gone into some .NET partnership with Microsoft.

You can understand them, since Corel was never really accepted well
inside the community.

> PS.
> How will the computer world look in 2099? MS is computer. WDM is the
> standard for every Microwave, VideoClock and MP3 player. Gates is like a
> god. And linux is outlwed. Pronouncing it may bring you into jail. There are
> some undergrounds, but in the time they will loose control over the OS since
> they can not find the Hawking which gide you through the next wizard. Then
> the matrix will start using people as power and left to do is wait for Keanu
> Reabs to save us all... (I think I should stop drinkoing, or may be start
> drinking more?).

Read RMS' The Right To Read.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Atleast it seems a bit more realistic. A bit.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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