cold water on linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Joel Hammer wrote:
...
>>
>> Looks like the Evil Empire has claimed another victim.
>>
>> First Caldera, then Corel, then Lindows.
>
>I see no similarities between the 3.  Caldera is committing suicide with
>the financial backing of M$.
>
>Corel never cared about Linux, and just used it as a potential cash source
>when Linux was a marketing plan.

Didn't M$ buy a big chunk of Corel?  Was that before or after Corel dropped
the native *nix ports of WordPerfect?

M$ has also killed of several fairly popular *nix accounting packages by
buying the companies then dropping the *nix versions (e.g. RealWorld).

>Now Lindows has just been stupid.  They're taking on MS with a product
>that is mediocre at best, and using Walmart as their primary retail outlet.
>No company can sell products at Walmart and expect to make any profit
>unless they are moving enormous volume.

It appears that Wal-Mart has dropped the SuSE versions of their Linux
boxen.

Bill
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