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Microsoft: Linux's Biggest Patron | |
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| Time: 03:27 EST/08:27 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Through its settlements with Sun and Novell, which total more than $2.4 billion, Microsoft has bought an extra dose of punishment from competitors focused on popularizing Linux. 11 comments posted Add your opinion RELATED LINKS Novell Linux Desktop Arrives Linux Networx Touts Lustre-Based Cluster Solution Novell's Engineering Boss Departs Linux-Networking Company Adobe Eyes Linux Desktop Strategy MS Office 12's Competition: Its Older Versions and Linux Suites Which company is the biggest spender in the Linux world? Is it IBM? Sun Microsystems? Red Hat? Novell? No, the biggest spender in Linux, at least this year, is arguably the company most threatened by its success. | ||
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| #1 By 26651 (198.53.104.108) at 11/11/2004 4:33:39 PM |
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Linux does not compete at an equal level, remember it can be downloaded for free.
How do you compete with that? With every passing day, it'll be hard for anyone to ignore Linux and it qualities. Like wine it only gets better with age and current versions show its very palatable. |
| #2 By 7797 (68.142.9.161) at 11/12/2004 1:14:15 AM |
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what a load of hooey!
Oh let me rephrase that headline then: Microsoft Customers: Linux's Biggest Patron (because thats where microsoft got their money from) This post was edited by tgnb on Friday, November 12, 2004 at 01:15. |
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