Fresh out of the Remond Borgmeister. biz.yahoo.com
After reading these statements of MR. Borgy, I'm convinced he no longer has a clue.
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. ME....Wow he believes this.
The Microsoft chairman noted, for example, that early Internet browsers had been distributed for free, but said that modern browsers were far more sophisticated and could no longer be developed in a noncommercial environment. ME...And as we all know a browser is much more sophisticated than Linux.
''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. ME...Yes all universities are dumping NT for Linux.
Gates said Microsoft took Linux seriously but felt that most customers would continue to favor Windows because it was a more homogenous product than Linux, development of which is in the hands of a diffuse band of programmers. ME....homogenous? see next ME.
Gates said, for example, that there were five different windowing systems that run on Linux. ME...There are six different borg systems and they are all mostly incompatible. (3.11 nt3.51 nt4.0 win95,97,98 )
''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. ME...yeah all that great testing give ya real suckurity as melissa has toyed with borgy.
''People really do want something that's been tested against all the different applications, so that they know exactly what is out there,'' he said. ME...Yes after extensive testing I believe that any IT person recommending NT to server anything is incompetent to the point of criminal negligence
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