[Gllug] Linux migration CD from M$

[Mike Brodbelt]

matthew at thenut.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> On  3 Sep, Steve Goodwin wrote:
> 
> > Is this me being unreasonable, but are M$ becoming more scared
> > lately? All the misinformation and attacking press they give to
> > Linux (but not necessarily BSD). When they start talking about why
> > their consistant visual appearance is good, they'll be fearing for
> > the desktop market, as well as the server one.
> 
> They're scared shitless. Not so much of Linux (it has it's faults) but
> of the whole open-source (or free, if you're a GNU) community. They're
> realising we're better than them (considering it was this sort of
> community which created their industry) but they can't admit that.

They are pretty worried I think. In most cases, their competition
doesn't worry them - they can attack them economically, and by all the
traditional dirty tricks. I think what scares them about Linux is that
is has no economic base to attack, and if it succeeds, it will do so by
destroying the basis on which their business is founded. Other
competitors just want to take pieces of their market - not devalue all
of it...

Mike.

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