🚀 go-pugleaf

eee@netcom.com (Mark Thorson) writes:

> PREDICTION: In 2001, you'll be able to buy a CD-ROM called MS LINUX.
> And, it'll have a version of Internet Explorer on it!  (Shudder!)

Well -

I think a much better strategy would be for them to hijack FreeBSD,
"enhance" it with some proprietary -- preferrably patented --
extensions: Win32, MFC, (D)COM, ActiveX, DirectX, what have you, and
use it as a Linux killer (Not all that different from what Apple is
doing, btw)

The BSD license makes this kind of thing a lot easier than the GPL
(they're already using some BSD networking tools, UIAM), and FreeBSD
is a rather decent OS.

The only thing they'd lose is the marketing value of the Linux name
(which may be what the guys in Redmond consider most important) and a
few easily remedied issues, like support for particular hardware.

-kzm
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