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

[Hans Reiser]

John J. Urbaniak wrote:

>No, Gerstner made the final decision.  He said "The desktop war is over."
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>John
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>Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html
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>>>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.
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>>Hans
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By the time he made the decision, it probably WAS over.

Hans