Re: ``Nothing like a monopoly to get investors to cheer you on''

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 01:41 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Eric M. Bennett wrote:
 
>Linux and Microsoft are the two most potent OS
>competitors and they focus on killing each other, then the presence of
>Linux may help companies like Be since Linux will be a distraction to
>Microsoft (and vice versa--note how the Halloween documents seem to have
>distracted some Linux folks from their usual goal of writing software to
>solve a particular problem they have).

It won't work that way here, because the pool of resources is limited.
Anything Linux does to compete with Microsoft will be MORE effective
against a less entrenched product.

--Brett