There are significantly less expensive ways...

Post #37,025 by kmself 5/1/02 12:59:22 AM Reply	There are significantly less expensive ways... ...to start your own GNU/Linux distro. In MSFT's case, they could turn ~~Interix~~ Unix Services for NT into a Linux w/o the Linux, running on Windows, for starters. Or cobble together their own set of tarballs, DEBs, RPMs, or foo, and start shipping / burrning / uploading it. They're already more than half way there, and considered this But you'd have to ask: to what end? "Buying" Caldera would provide Microsoft with precisely this much leverage over "GNU/Linux": 0. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #37,077 by orion 5/1/02 2:26:38 PM Reply	Ah but MS buying Caldera would also get Correl Draw, Correl Paint, Wordperfect Suite, DR-DOS, etc off the market or turned into Microsoft's products. But MS could do what they did for OS/2 and port Unix and X into the OS to run Unix/X programs natively. But then wasn't there a POSIX mode in the old NT, or did MS drop it with the OS/2 1.X Text only mode? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #37,088 by kmself 5/1/02 3:11:01 PM Reply	What MSFT should do with Correl Office Suite ...is buy it and double its marketshare from 1% to 2% of the Office market to be able to claim credible competition. Similar to the $150m "infusion" it made in Apple some years back (which was actually a patent settlement and not a beneficent gesture). Unix and X are already largely native on MS Windows. Cygwin ports allow execution of many GNU and POSIX utilities. Unix Services for MS Windows NT is the same vibe from the belly of the beast. "Unmanaged" X11 servers allow X11 and MS Windows apps to cohabit the same workspace -- no seperate X windows desktop required (though frankly I prefer full-screen managed X sessions if possible). `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #37,106 by orion 5/1/02 5:14:38 PM Reply	Didn't Microsoft give Correl some funding a while ago? Or was I imagining things? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*

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