Oh good. More stuff about communism. Hey, if calling the activities of hardware manufacturing companies like HP and Dell "communism" sounds persuasive to you, then you should keep doing that. I personally find it ludicrous, but I understand that loud and vociferous name-calling is all you guys have.
You're not paying attention, are you. You're talking through your hat again, instead of knowing what you're doing. Here, let me help you: here are just some of the companies funding Open Source Development Labs, which is where Linus Torvalds works: IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco Systems.
IBM is a big company. It's very famous in America. So is Hewlett-Packard. All these companies are. And in spite of your assertion, they have lots and lots of money.
Do you get the picture yet? This is Microsoft's distribution channel -- huge companies with billions of dollars -- funding the development of a common, platform-independent OS. If they want to indemnify the damned thing, they will... your statement that IBM etc. "don't have any money" to the contrary.
The only thing Gates can do about this is spray FUD in the air. So we'll hear plenty of FUD. Much of it from you, apparently. Oh well, no one expects him to go away quietly.
You may want to divert attention from your previous post, but it was clear when it said qoute "Let's stop writing those big checks to Gates, and let's stop pouring our money down commodity ratholes...we might as well have one in common between us, share the damned thing". Sounds like communism to me, but but my definition is probably different from yours.
IBM is a big company. It's very famous in America. So is Hewlett-Packard. All these companies are. And in spite of your assertion, they have lots and lots of money. If they want to indemnify the damned thing, they will...
Those are hardware vendors, who do not have their own Linux version to indemnify. You're going to need Red Hat, SuSe, Mandrake, Red Flag and Torvalds among others to warranty the software, IBM is just 'iron' right Nick, didn't I learn that from you?
The only thing Gates can do about this is spray FUD in the air.
Ah, the omnipresent M$ connection. Or should I say, obsession.