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To: JC Jaros who wrote (26010)	1/10/2000 6:00:00 PM
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You know I watch this Sun<->Linux dynamic closely and have for two years. I guess IBM hasn't. Look at this rather amazing and infuriating IBM lie from a 1/10 wire story based on IBM's Linux PR: But the new push into Linux ``puts the world's leading server vendor on a side other than Sun and Microsoft, which are opposed to open standards and which favor closed, proprietary operating systems,' said James Sciales, an IBM spokesman. ``We believe that open standards are the key to the next-generation of the Internet, and Linux is where we're placing our bets.' The irony is, of course, that IBM has a history of scuttling standards efforts, viz. the OSF, whereas SUN has been doing whatever it can to promote open standards from its inception. This kind of blatant lie by IBM to me is a sign of desperation. It's a sign that they're thrashing and are going to miss their earnings. It's M$FT style FUD. What a p*sser. --QS Edit: It might be fair to say that IBM also favors "closed, proprietary operating systems", since they have about 15 of them.

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