Posted
26 December 2002 @ 8 AM

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linux

5 Comments

Politics of technology

After having tried every possible trick up its sleeves, calling Linux a cancer, calling it un-American, calling it as an evil to businesses and whatever, Microsoft is now, like a typical political leader who looks for a pretext to malign his opponent, concentrating on `business values'. It says that MS products are the best choice ``when you make a buying decision based on the business value.'' What does business value signify here? Is it busines value for MS?

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Posted by
Nilesh

29 December 2002 @ 3 AM

Dhar, because they cannot move above the code mess they have created. Imagine 200MB of essential compiled binaries. The source code would be anything around 1.5-2.0 GB. They cannot simply junk that much effort.

Posted by
Sameer

26 December 2002 @ 8 AM

Business is okay... but Values is something that I cannot come around to associate with MS! :)

Posted by
Nilesh

26 December 2002 @ 11 AM

Exactly! :-)

Posted by
codey

27 December 2002 @ 12 AM

very zimble: Windows is a very valuble business for M$ ;-)

Posted by
Dhar

27 December 2002 @ 2 PM

How long before MS decides to join the Linux Bandwagon and come out with MS Linux?? I am not joking... I am pretty serious. There is nothing that stops them from doing it. And on top of it, they can make available MS Office, IE. MS Project and other applications for their Linux distro. The distro can be free, but people will have to pay for other applications. The administration will be made just like Windows, so companies can migrate painlessly. I wonder why they are not using this method to kill off the main Linux companies like RedHat, Mandrake etc. Cheers, Dhar