[Am-info] Look out IBM, MS is after your Linux

[John J. Urbaniak]

No, Gerstner made the final decision.  He said "The desktop war is over."

John


Hans Reiser wrote:

> John J. Urbaniak wrote:
>
> >  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html
> >
> >MS is terrified of Linux.  IBM supports Linux (today, anyway).
> >
> >Now, I've always suspected that Gerstner took a bribe from MS to kill
> >OS/2 (Remember the testimony "How much do we have to pay you to get you
> >to screw Netscape?") .  I betcha he gets threatened with revelation of
> >that treachery from the boys in Redmond soon.  Little leaks to the WSJ
> >and other publications of Lou's secret MSFT options holdings ...
> >
> >I can't wait for the cowardly deeds to be publicized.  I can't wait for
> >the lawsuits against IBM for fraud and deceptive practives from OS/2
> >users, customers and partners like me, who were lied to by IBM.
> >
> >Of course, the alternative would be for Gerstner ("Sir Gerstner") to
> >cave again.
> >
> >We might see a breathtaking reversal of IBM's support for Linux as
> >well.  In either case, it will be ugly for IBM.  Good!
> >
> >John
> >
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> I don't think you understand.  The decision by the folks who sold the
> hardware systems to not support the folks who wrote the software was not
> likely to have been made by gerstner, but rather ignored by him due to
> incompetence of the sort large companies are filled with.  Don't look
> for extreme answers unless extreme incompetence is it.  Extreme
> incompetence is the only extremist answer consistently accurate in
> describing organizations.  Much more likely is that one VP hated another
> VP intensely, though I don't have knowledge of that being true in this
> instance.
>
> Hans