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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1432)4/14/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: Arnold Layne   of 2615
 
Gates calls Linux impact 'fairly limited' Microsoft boss says he takes the alternative OS seriously, but plays down its commercial potential. By Reuters April 14, 1999 12:23 PM PT HOUSTON, Texas -- Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday he foresaw only a limited role for Linux, the open-source operating system seen by some as a threat to Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system. 'The fact that you don't have a central testing point to control ultimately how to build these things probably means that the impact will be fairly limited.' -- Bill Gates on Linux Addressing an audience of information technology professionals in Houston, Gates said there was clearly a market for free software but this was mainly confined to relatively simple applications such as word processing and spreadsheets. << ie. Like Los Alamos' 100 Processor Beowulf Clusters? >> << ie. Perhaps Bill thinks you need Multiprocesors to Run Word Processors & Spreadsheets Like WORD & EXCEL.. >> "Today the browsers have gotten rich enough that it's not the kind of software that you can develop and test in a university-type of environment," he said. << ie. The MSFT Redmond Campus. >> "The fact that you don't have a central testing point to control ultimately how to build these things probably means that the impact will be fairly limited,'' Gates said. << ie. Limited To Areas Outside The MSFT Corporate Campus. >>
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