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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1596)	6/19/1999 11:45:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Particularly for newbies, and dual bootsters, Costco has a very good deal on MacMillan Linux, which is Mandrake 6.0 (tweaked RedHat 6.0 for Pentiums) with all the cool GUI stuff, drag and drop printing, click on the floppy/CDR, manual AND Partition Magic in a shrink wrapped box for $24.99. You can't beat that. I don't know about elsewhere, but at the Costco in Novato Ca., there were three stacks of 'em on the corner of the software table. They must be selling quite a few. -JCJ

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1596)	6/27/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2617

Competition keeps Linux lean cnn.com The buzz on the street is that there will be several more commercial IDE offerings appearing over the next few months. Each additional tool will open the door for more developers. More developers will mean more applications. More apps will mean more competition. All to the benefit of consumers everywhere. Some people scoff when I say that Bill Gates is afraid of competition. They believe he's simply ultracompetitive. That's not the way I see it. If you were competing against Bill Gates in a track meet, he would sabotage your starting blocks, bribe the officials, loosen the cleats in your shoes, use a trick count for the start, and do anything and everything else he could think of to avoid having the outcome determined by virtue of performance on the field. I don't call that competitive. I call it cowardly. Microsoft has managed to create, maintain, and extend a competition-free zone for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for its key applications. In the short term, it's hard to argue with the results reflected in the bottom line. But just as lack of competition has been the reason for the perennial success of Windows, it is also the cause of its downfall. Without the benefits of real competition, Windows has grown fat, short of breath, and weak on staying power. Linux is only now beginning to flex its muscle. I know which horse I want to carry me into the new millennium. What about you?