Is this the day we have been waiting for?

[Ted Ozolins]

On Thursday 14 March 2002 12:40 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> As in, 'I'm gonna hold by breath until I die.'
>
> I thought that was the new distribution model anyway.
>
> It is because of this possability that the Chinese government
> went with Linux. They did not want to base a very important part
> of their infrastructure on one company's product, a product
> that could be withheld in times of disagreement.
>
> Even though it will never happen, I think that the fact that
> the suggestion was even made quite interesting. In a perfect
> world, this would cause many people to re-think their dependency.

This is the same strategy M$ used against Dell, Gateway, etc and forced them 
to ship their computers with WinXX on them. I guess they're going to see if 
that crap will work for them again. 

An associate of mine was quite upset at that anouncement. In his opinion, a 
lot of small to medium companies would be forced into bankcruptcy. My 
response was "OH well!". I told him that in my opinion any company that has 
placed their buisiness in the hands of BG deserves to fold. He chuckled and 
asked me how would I design circuits without M$ (should they stop shipping). 
I replied, " the same way as I do now, with Protel"  Just because M$ stops 
shipping WinXX doesn't mean that installed systems will cease to work. 
Besides, if that were to happen, which I strongly doubt, I'd finally will be 
able to get protel for Linux. After all, if there is no OS to base your 
product on then in order to survive you'll have to port your programs to an 
OS that does exist. I can dream can't I:)

-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.