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To: JC Jaros who wrote (11193)	9/30/1998 3:17:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Hi JC, I think MSFT should be the one watching its backside. This is great news for the computing world, period. Hopefully, RedHat will put its energy into end-user computing & make a useful & RELIABLE OS for the PC. I have argued long & hard for a public domain O/S for PC's because the hardware is public domain, & maybe this is it. I've been using FreeBSD on Intel for about 1 year & it's good enough for me & it's reliable & doesn't get in my way, you can't beat the price & the source & support is available all over the internet. What would be great would be a windows-like (cde type?) UI as an option along with a fistfull of popular PC applications. Someone needs to package that support & make Linux into a full- fledged product. If it gets the right kind of push, NOW, it will beat NT5 to market & grab a foothold. MSFT will try to muscle Linux off the retail shelf-space & thru the resale channels. Failing that, they'll port their apps to it & play a more long-term game. Maybe they'll revive Xenix (hahahahahaha!!!)