At 12:59 PM 1/06/2004 -0400, Paul Schmidt wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 09:57, Milan Babuskov wrote:
> > Helen Borrie wrote:
> > > This story (read ALL of the sections) is well worth the read,
> high-calorie
> > > Food for Thought...
> > >
> > > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=174156
> >
> > I'd like to know why do you think that way? The story is full of
> > mistakes, and I haven't learned anything new from it.
>
>Gee, where have we heard this male bovine manure before. Microsoft is
>going to win, so everybody might as well go with Microsoft and make it
>happen.

Well, that's not how I read it at all. I read it as a fairly apt
commentary on where Microsoft was heading, with Longhorn and its aggressive
tactics against competitors, especially open source ones. (And yes,
unfortunately, there were some errors there, like saying Konqueror was
based on Mozilla). I didn't learn anything new, either, but not every
thought-provoking article introduces new things.

But he was NOT saying "buckle under" - I read it as a wake-up call to
organisations to take care and use intelligence in the software choices
they make now, to avoid being forced into the Microsoft-controlled world
that Longhorn is designed for.

I did suggest reading it all the way through.

Helen