[rescue] Divide and conquer

Wed Jul 23 13:43:02 CDT 2003

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:32:28AM -0700, N . Miller wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 11:12 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > I find myself musing that Micrososft will doubtless win in the end, no
> > matter how crappy their products.
> >
> > Why?  Simple.  Because the Unix "community" is self-dividing.
> >
> > I wish I was joking.
> 
> I presume that you are talking about the SCO crap--sending
> license notices to commercial customers of Linux (and
> "indemnifying" Linus Torvalds--how nice of them)?

There is also the HP/Compaq vs. Sun vs. IBM/AIX vs. IBM/Linux angle.

Sun's stock dropped 17% today after they reported lousy numbers last
evening.

--Patrick