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To: 5dave22 who wrote (100498)	3/28/2000 3:34:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Respond to of 1575498

Dave Re: Linux Dave- I don't own Linux and probobly never will. I can't see how any of the Linux companies will ever make money. It kind of defeats the fundamental principles of Linux to sell your product for a profit. Also, I don't think Linux will make much of an impact on the desktop anytime soon. Linux should be huge on servers over the next few years, but are any of the Linux companies going to make money because of that? I run Linux at home. I do love Linux though, hence, the quotes... "The box said 'windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux" "Linux, Window NT, and Windows 98; the good, the bad, the ugly"

To: 5dave22 who wrote (100498)	3/28/2000 3:36:00 PM
From: that_crazy_doug	Respond to of 1575498

OT < Does anybody here own shares of Linux > If I were to buy into any linux company, I'd look strongly at CORL. In my opinion, they are positioned better than most other linux firms because they also have a lot of linux compatible software they can sell (or bundle with their version). Also, from what I've heard almost all the people working on wine are corel employees. Right now, most of the wine knowledge base is out of corel's sphere, but since they have added so many people to teh project who are becoming competent, they will eventually have most of the knowledgable wine people and could easily make a corel only enhanced version of wine. (they announced something about that a few monthes ago, how corel linux would be able to run any windows program this summer) Also, corel has the lowest market cap of all the linux companies. So it has the most room to grow if linux is a big hit. The only problem I see with corel, is they seem focused mainly on the desktop/server/workstation area, and red hat looks like they'll persue more integrated technologies. That might give red hat an upper hand in the future, or it might not. Just my 2c as long as we were talking about linux ;) (I don't own any linux companies, but I've considered it)