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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (47539)	7/8/2000 12:06:12 PM
From: JC Jaros	of 74651

For me, this calls IDC's level of insight into question. MS will never adopt Linux, in part because of the license (GPL). They'd be more apt to go for a MSBSD in the way Apple did. Even that's not going to happen and it's nothing about antitrust. --- The reason is cultural, architectural and deep. Unix and Windows (even NT) are of antirely different school of design. For the most part they're polar opposites. --- It would be more likely that MS would 'open' Windows as part of an effort to stem the tide of developer mindshare loss which is leaving Windows, and at the same time attempt a level of *nix workalike into the existing M$ monolith. --- But I don't think anything like that will happen either. I think MS is eternally wed to existing convention like the middle aged and bloating Gates. -JCJ

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