From: "Joe Barr" 

On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:01:42 +0000, Geo. wrote:


> It was, while IBM was claiming all sorts of corporate penetration with
> OS/2, Linux was quietly winning over the hearts and minds of a generation
> of geeks, at the time a bunch of high school kids who are just now getting
> into positions where they affect the decisions of corp america. It is
> happening exactly as I had tried to warn MS it would. (actually faster
> because I never imagined IBM and the like getting behind the linux push
> like they have)

You are never going to get it, George.  IBM is a company hoping to make a
profit.  Linux is not a company, it is a revolution. It is not vulnerable
to the business tactics MS has employed against the entire world all of its
life.

If Linux's life depended on getting preloaded, like OS/2's did, it would
have been vulnerable in exactly the same way.  The Linux phenomenum wasn't
planned, it just happened.

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