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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (59400)	7/5/2001 1:04:38 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 74651

Posturing takes many forms It's silly when MSFT does it, and its equally silly when companies like IBM do it. IBM's new-found love of Linux is part of their reversion to being a hardware company--essentially a tacit admission that MSFT has won the OS war. Nevertheless I agree that it makes MSFT look foolish to issue rabid attacks on open-source since this only provides free publicity for it. I still maintain that Linux is more of a threat to SUNW than to MSFT, however, as they are clearly the main target of IBM's embrace of Linux.