Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:
>
> > Is M$ really thinking about this? That would really be the end of the
> > internet.
>
> I doubt it. There's no real thing that Microsoft can offer that would
> make end-users *want* to use their proprietary protocol. On the other
We did not ask for a broken OS either, and yet they made it. We did not
ask for a securityless OS, yet they made it. They have money, they can
push.
> hand, there are a lot of people that would really, really not want this to
> happen - like all those web and database servers running Unix. Plus,
> Cisco controls as much of the router market as Microsoft controls the
> desktop market. They aren't likely to just decide to start taking orders
> about how to do networking from Microsoft just because Microsoft wants
> them to.
>
That is what I hope. A big part of the business market still uses Unixes
and those are the people who know something about network stuff.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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