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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (47539)	7/8/2000 6:50:53 AM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Very interesting ruling from a German court. Would not be surprised to see it here: infoworld.com

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (47539)	7/8/2000 8:34:28 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

RJ: If MSFT sees a way to make a fortune out of doing so they will embrace and absorb the whole of Linux into a MSFT product that will become the standard Linux environment. That is why you have to stay with MSFT they now how to market stuff, they know how to get what the majority of the world wants into th market place. They are geeks who understand the ordinary folks. JFD

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