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Hello Roger - 

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RS> Do you really want Microsoft to get into the Linux
RS> business? I don't! They would only make a mess out of what
RS> is (or once was) a really exciting movement in software,
RS> and a valid alternative to the pricey *NIX's like Sun and
RS> IBM. 

The above paragraph just triggered a 'realization' for me. 

I've been thinking for many years that the angst between Linux
users and Microsoft was misplaced but couldn't quite clarify
why I felt that way. 

I realize now that, as you have said, it was the high prices
from anyone/everyone connected with Unix that frustrated me for
years and my original interest in Minix and Linux was that they
had circumvented _those_ companies. Microsoft had/has nothing
to do with how I felt nor how I feel today about the greed of
companies who sold Unix. 

SCO's latest money grabbing scheme is typical of how all of
them behaved at one time. They are the ones Linux users should
be annoyed with, not Microsoft. 

Microsoft did release Xenix AMOF through companies such as
Radio Shack at a much lower price than any Unix I was aware of
at the time. In reality it can be said that Microsoft _tried_
to bring *nix to the desktop long before Tannenbaum or Torvalds. 

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