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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 27 Apr 1996 12:21:12 +0200 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 17 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Message-ID: <ufbukege7a.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4lfm6m$d2c@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <4lftn3$olb@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <317C8F0F.307E@curtin.edu.au> <4lgo4c$6fa@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <317E07F1.441D@curtin.edu.au> <317DAA16.42C86E59@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:12:06 -0700 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22548 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:876 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3572 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3429 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18361 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47401 In article <317DAA16.42C86E59@lambert.org> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: : What is your estimate of the life expenctancy of Microsoft? My estimate is that they have about five years' worth of life left in them. Microsoft is operated like one giant chain letter. At some point, when there is no more market share left to grab, the scheme will come down like a house of cards. The problem is by that time, they will have 100 % market share in the desktop, workgroup server and heaven knows what other markets. A lot of users will be very very unhappy. -- __ | Martin Ibert, Fürstenweg 11, D-13589 Berlin-Spandau, Germany, EU ( )__ | martini@heaven7.snafu.de, Fon: +493037595100, Fax: +493037595101 ( )_ |----------------------------------------------------------------- (_________) | All that we see or seem/is but a dream within a dream. -- E.A.P. PGP key and Geek code available on my home page <http://www.snafu.de/~martini/>