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Article #1751Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Mr S A Penny
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <361122d7.21142602@mailtraq.feverish.demon.co.uk>, antispam@feverish.demon.co.uk (Robert Wilderspin) writes: >On 29 Sep 1998 14:26:04 GMT, dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu (Dave Blake ) >wrote: > >>Robert Wilderspin wrote: >>>Even at the pace Linux is moving at now, Microsoft won't have the >>>bailiffs in for a good many years yet. >> >>Don't be so certain. Microsoft has two cash cows - OEM OS >>deals, and Office. If the first goes down their net value >>will plummet instantly. They have a ton staked on NT 5.0, >>and linux is coming up fast on the server end. > >It'll still take a few years to get anywhere near that position >though, but I'm pretty sure that it's going to happen in time. Linux >now has two or three years to stake it's claim before NT 5.0 comes >out, so we'd better make the most of it. also projects like StarOffice are making a good go at taking out MS's other leg by offering a cheaper (free for personal use) alternative to Office which is also available for Linux/Windows/MacOs and probably others... SammyTheSnake -- SammyTheSnake@HotMail.com PHUAE@Warwick.ac.uk S.A.Penny@Warwick.ac.uk http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3353/ Check out my (E)TLA refference page at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~phuae/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: phuae@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S A Penny) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/29 Message-ID: <6urb0q$7el$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 396072765 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <36104836.58344271@mailtraq.feverish.demon.co.uk> <slrn711rft.ees.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu> <361122d7.21142602@mailtraq.feverish.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@csv.warwick.ac.uk X-Trace: holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk 907095898 7637 137.205.4.3 (29 Sep 1998 19:04:58 GMT) Organization: University of Warwick, UK NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Sep 1998 19:04:58 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss