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To: Justin Banks who wrote (14913)12/15/1997 6:04:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24154
 
Justin,

>One way may be that there are more people working on Linux than on any other OS, worldwide. This group includes some of the most talented OS people I've ever seen, met, talked to, or heard of.

Come on Justin, be real, "talented OS people" do not design OS's...Microsft does.

>Remember the recent x86 bug where... It was fixed in ... less than eight hours.

Thanks, this clears up the 'bug' vs. 'known issue' confusion. Proper usage is therefore based on the grammatical tense of the statement itself. Hence, "we have already fixed that bug..." vs. "that is a known issue which will be addressed and resolved in the next release of...".



To: Justin Banks who wrote (14913)12/17/1997 9:14:00 AM
From: drmorgan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24154
 
>update Intel (INTC) and Sun Microsystems have announced an agreement to allow Sun's Solaris operating system to run on the next-generation Intel "Merced" processor and agreed on the cross licensing of technologies.<

If this all comes about do you think this could hurt future NT Server sales?

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Derek