Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

Michael Bacarella
2001-06-21T22:31:08Z

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:25:15PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> If MS was currently facing BSD rather than LInux, they would have "embrace
> and extend"ed it long ago. Hide half of office in the system libraries (just
> like windows), come out with a closed-source version, loot the open
> competition for any advances but don't share yours...

Apple's doing it right now.

Except that Apple keeps the old code open. Probably because
they'll gain nothing from it, and at best, they can appeal to
the techies.

And it worked. For months, I heard nothing but how much butt
MacOS X would kick and that it'd be like Linux, but have a
better application layer.

Whatever.

No one says that now that it's out. As if Apple would
really try to appeal to us. :)

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Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
Technical Staff / System Development,
New York Connect.Net, Ltd.