Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: Tim Haynes
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00

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"Merrill Lynch" <anybody@ml.com> writes upside-down:

> An intersting wrangle is I *believe* the VAST majority of MS profit is
> NOT from the OS.
> 
> Also there is a school of thought that believes MS will give away
> personal (not server) versions of Windoze when Linux and/or something
> else really hits the mainstream (i.e. average Joe on the street)

Sounds like a bad strategy to me. Trying to give something away for zero
money but also with no source won't win more converts (everyone who wants
'doze already has it courtesy of the M$loth tax) and will just make
revealing its instabilities all the easier :)

~Tim
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From: "Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/04
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