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Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.



On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:21:43AM -0400, 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
> 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.

there's no way for microso~1 to make me want to offer front page
extensions on my server, for example -- but if i was an isp and
80% of my clientele begged for it...

microso~1 has mass and they know how to sling it around. they
won't get us to want to change -- they'll get us to want to
communicate with people who did change unknowingly...

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #32 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
Wondering WHICH PACKES PERTAIN TO xyz? Try "apt-cache search xyz":
	apt-cache search docbook
	apt-cache search dbf
	apt-cache search png
Any package containing the string you're looking for will be listed,
with a brief description.

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...



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