Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:55:32 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke <mlduke@concentric.net> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just Imagine.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009211101380.337-100000@mlduke.concentric.net> In-Reply-To: <39CA4C16.FFB05634@acuson.com>
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Microsoft? "embrace/extend Unix"??? More likely, they would attempt to turn it into "windows 9000, 'the _new_ and _IMPROVED_' Unix". Then we would have available a Unix OS that would mis-manage the disk, lock up, crash/burn and the public would become Unix "aware". And, since it (the new improved OS) would operate "normally," the public would now embrace Unix for the first time and they would _love_ it--cause bill & the boys in Redmond say they should. New applications would be written: TeX would become MsX and run on the new Unix only and have one typeface, and would only require reinstallation once per 100 page manuscript--an "awesome" breakthrough. X would become M and have clouds in the "sky". Pine would become ... well, Pine would have to go. Corel nor Wordstar would work, Netscape would have to burn and no alternative but to scrap vi.... and it would become miwordpad ... with a GUI ... grep could be msrepfind ... and .... (Sorry, couldn't help myself). ML Duke > A Microsoft, on the other hand, views partners as competitors. They > would not be content with funding FreeBSD and getting no lock on > something in return. I would see them doing it only as a way to get into > the Unix market, then proceeding to embrace/extend Unix. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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