[vox] FWD: How Linux helps Microsoft

["R. Douglas Barbieri" <doug@dooglio.nMAPSet>]

Hey all,

I was sent this link by someone I know who is decidely anti-Linux.

http://www.forbes.com/2004/08/31/cz_dl_0831msft.html

I'd like to know what vox-ites would say to this article. It appears 
pretty slanted, but the one point I like is that Microsoft (and it's 
customers!) will benefit from competition. Linux is the only OS to give 
them a run for their money.

Here is an excerpt:

"Microsofties say they were more worried about Linux a few years ago, 
when it was a truly free program, spreading on its own, from user to 
user, like a virus. Now that Linux costs real money, and is sold by 
buttoned-down blue suits from IBM and Novell, Microsoft feels more 
confident. Microsoft has beaten these guys, badly, in operating system 
wars before."

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R. Douglas Barbieri
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