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To: DiViT who wrote (47661)	3/6/2002 4:34:19 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

That was an insightful article; even the biased and annoying Divit sometimes posts good stuff. That Sun - and indeed any of the Unix vendors - has to embrace Linux at all is their own fault. The ghost of Unix wars past comes back to haunt. Sun, and perhaps all the Unix vendors, would have been better off if a united Unix had killed Windows before it was even born. This is the truth that the empty-suit execs of the late 80's were just too plain stupid to apprehend. They had it all, and blew it because cooperation was something that they could only pretend to do. Sun was partly at fault, but really they were still too small a player during those wars to tip the scales one way or the other. The guys who made the difference and sank the ship were the d*ckheads at AT&T and IBM. AT&T got what was coming to it. IBM took a hit, survived, and learned their lesson, too late of course. --QS