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To: Justin Banks who wrote (20853)	9/8/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> Linux has got a decent productivity solution, and people are starting to line up to supply the enterprise apps. MSFT just doesn't get that they can't fight it. <<< Recently one of the high level minions actually acknowledged Linux and said they were a bit worried, at one of the trade shows. It disturbs me that Linus is now working at a company funded or connected somehow with MSFT. He holds everything together in the Linux world, as I understand it. If they get to him... Sometimes idealists don't even know when they've been co-opted, if done cleverly enough. I would like any comment as to the probability of MSFT being able to influence Linux development through this relationship, whether the relationship actually exists, what he is doing for them and so on. I am relying too much on rumor in this matter. If this above is not factual please let us all know. Linux now being the prime competition for NT, in my view, this is of some immediate concern. Cheers, Chaz