Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! Has anyone else come across the Halloween documents at opensource.org? Interesting read. They seem to confirm what I've noticed about M$. It seems that M$ as adopted a policy of "de-commoditizing" protocols. Basically, it means that M$ will happily sign on to new standards and then add their own "extensions" to effectively break the standard. The crux of it is if you have M$ on the desktop you'll need their version of the protocol on your servers. Those servers probably won't be running RedHat. Certainly you noticed this with most Microsoft implementations. MS Java, Internet Explorer, MS DNS to name a few. The next generation of Office promises to do the same for XML. It isn't Microsoft's dedication to their customers that's causing them to alter these standards; it's their dedication to their shareholders. To be truthful I don't think Linux is ready for the average users desktop, but Windows on the desktop only helps M$ push it's non-standard standards on the back-end. You'd think Redhat would at least endorse Mac. Dave Alitz Justin Kremer wrote: > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101690.html > > Yeah, the company that in most peoples eyes IS linux (because they > don't know any better) is telling them that they should use Windows > instead. > > -- > Justin Kremer > <kremer at ringworld.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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