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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:53:12 +0800 (TSD)
From:      "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su>
To:        pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni)
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Internet providers discouraging customers from unix
Message-ID:  <199706121353.VAA10547@vas.tomsk.su>
In-Reply-To: <339E507A.5845@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at "Jun 11, 97 00:15:06 am"

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Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Victor A. Sudakov wrote:
> > 
> > Stephen A. Derdau wrote:
> > > O yes os/2 as well......What diffrence should it make to this providers.
> > > As long as their running tcp/ip any os should be acceptable?
> > 
> > I can already see the future. Imagine the "Microsoft Internet (R)" and
> > "TCP/IP Designed for Windows 95 (R)". And ISPs will have to be licensed and
> > certified by Microsoft. We shall be the extinct minority with our unices and
> > shall have to support MIP (R) - Microsoft Internet Protocol.
> > 
> This is called "embrace and extend" :-(.

Yes. The way an octopus kills its prey.


-- 
Victor Sudakov
http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm



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