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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- In article <1h7gj1INNitc@cae.cad.gatech.edu> chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:
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- [ stuff deleted ]
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- >If they DO get broken up, there are other software companies out there.
- >Hell, UNIX may gain some more ground if it happens. For now,
- >sticking with OS/2 and Unix hasn't hurt me, and probably won't. If
- >MS DOES break up, some of the smaller companies may have room to
- >grow.
- >
-
- Unfortunately UNIX isn't going to gain any ground. NOvel announced
- that will buy Unix Systems Laboratory for $335 million in stock.
- "This aquisition is being done at the urging of customers who have
- asked us to support the Unix system directly and integrate it fully
- within the Netware environment," says Raymond Noorda, Novell's CEO.
- (Reference - PRODIGY interactive personal service).
-
- If you read this statement carefully, you will notice that Ray
- wants to absorb UNIX into Netware, not the other way around. If
- this actually comes about, one of the last of the good OS
- environments will bite the dust; all because he has a hard on for
- Bill Gates.
-
- The prize that comes with Unix Systems Laboratory is AT&T copyright
- to UNIX. Oh well, I've seen good things raped and plundered before;
- just never thought UNIX would be one of them.
-
- JMHO...
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- Bureaucracy: noun, plural - Bureaucracies.
- The process of turning energy into solid waste.
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