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to: Robert Comer
from: Paul Ranson
date: 2002-11-20 22:41:06
subject: Re: Banned X-Box ad - Life is short

From: "Paul Ranson" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3ddbf569$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Actually, with what the India people said yesterday, I'm not so sure
> Microsoft doesn't *have* to put out a version for Linux, and they've got
to
> make it cheaper and without this activation crap. (and contrary to what
Paul
> says, it wont have to be GPL'd )

I have never made any sort of statement that could be used to justify that
last remark.

It will be interesting to see what happens, but I doubt MS will provide
Indic functionality for Linux, and certainly not the sort that could be
reused by other apps. It's not in their nature...

Paul

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