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To: Golden Eagle
another American Unix company pays the piper for involving themselves with Linux and open source. Sun, Silicon Graphics, SCO, Cray, Novell

How many times do I have to set you straight? Sun, SGI and Cray lost it because they couldn't keep pace with the hardware from Intel and AMD, not because of OS competition. It used to be that about the fastest thing you could have on your desktop was a Sun SPARC or an SGI MIPS, but not anymore -- it's an Intel or AMD.

Novell was screwed before it started playing with Linux. First by Microsoft, then successively by itself.

And you have it backwards with SCO, because it wasn't a UNIX company that got involved with Linux, it was a Linux company that got involved with UNIX.

And Windows itself ships with open source software, so you lost your argument there.

14 posted on 11/21/2006 2:34:31 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
How many times do I have to set you straight? Sun, SGI and Cray lost it because they couldn't keep pace with the hardware from Intel and AMD

LMAO you're actually agreeing with me since Linux ran on Intel and AMD, but most Unix did not.

And Windows itself ships with open source software, so you lost your argument there.

Hilarious!

19 posted on 11/22/2006 5:01:03 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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