Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] .NET on the Mac and BSD

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

So Microsoft is funding development efforts in India.  This is called a
"jihad against Linux."  Seems to me that Microsoft isn't saying a word
about Linux in these efforts.  Why isn't it a "jihad against Apple"?
It's just good business practice.  You can't expect a $500 billion
corporation to just lay down and die without trying to promote its
products in new markets.  If the author of the article wanted to persuade
me, he should have conveyed some facts about Linux use in India, etc.,
etc., but he really had nothing to say.

Mike


On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, George wrote (quoting the Register):

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28063.html
>
> Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $421m to fight Linux
> By Thomas C Greene in Washington
> Posted: 13/11/2002 at 04:22 GMT
>
> We do hate to rain on a high-profile corporate love-fest, but we have to
> point out that in addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Billg has
> donated to India's fight against HIV, he's funding the Microsoft jihad
> against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million. That
> means that Linux is more than four times worse than AIDS to Billg and
> his happy Redmond family. God forbid any of them should learn the bitter
> truth the hard way and start talking sense.

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