<span style="font-weight: bold;">all the more reason to acknowledge our responsibility as ambassadors of FLOSS, FSF, OpenSource, etc.</span><br><br>if everyone is already cusshy with their alternatives, there's beno need for propping up, like northern rock, right?<br>
<br><br>maybe i should be throwing away some copies of all the 'nix cds and dvds i've burned. i've well over 100, enough variety to open up shop for sure, if other computer shops open only offering one os!<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">jamie</b> <<a href="mailto:linux@riach.eu">linux@riach.eu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Being a pessimist and having watched national flag ship companies sail<br>close to the wind for 30 years my bet is microsoft will fail in the<br>market but the US/European/Asian taxpayer will prop them up with<br>exemptions from normal anti competitive legislation combined with<br>
American courts fining countries/regions unilateraly and probably<br>secretly for all the pirate software that obviously "destroys their<br>profitability ". Currently they would not be allowed to fail because<br>
they are the monopoly provider of business infra structure and any<br>change would severely affect profitability in all sectors. look at y2k<br>and the funding pumped in to sort out their previous f*ck*p.<br>Hopefully those courts won't find linux/bsd/etc to provide unfair<br>
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