As a newbie lurker, I do not have a large dog in this fight yet, but--based on articles that have recently been written in Investors Business Daily--M$ is has plenty of reason to finally take some serious marketing measures in response to the Linux revolution. The pressure is definitly on, and the "fanatics" would do well to be mindful of clever assaults. On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:33:48 -0500 "Brent Friedman" <bfriedman at exstream.com> writes: > A similar message showed up on a LUG mailing list that I subscribe to > in Kentucky. > > I don't want to spread FUD, so I will just drop some links I came > across. > > http://lists.gslug.org/pipermail/gslug-general/2003-November/000086.html > > http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/linux-list/2001-September/049805.html > (Shows in browser as "<name deleted>" -search it for "Michael > Surkan" and that message shows up) > > Feedback from Surkan's 1998 ZDNet article "I Come Not to Praise > Linux..." article... > http://linuxtoday.com/news/1998111802110PS > (links to original article don't show the article, they show a > search page for zdnet stuff) > > http://www.jukie.net/pipermail/ottawa-wifi/2003-December.txt > > http://seclists.org/lists/firewall-wizards/2003/Dec/0083.html > (complete with online survey link!) > > I will close this email with a tagline attributed to Michael > Surkan's PC Week article noted above, > As long as Linux remains a religion of freeware fanatics, > Microsoft have nothing to worry about. > By Michael Surkan, PC Week Online > > > Brent Friedman > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list