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

[Hans Reiser]

Sujal Shah wrote:

>Can I ask a dumb question?  Are Hans' messages going to the list, or to
>the posters directly?  I haven't seen a single message from Hans in a
>long, long while.  On the other hand, I always see people's replies to
>him.  I only see one or two posts by him in the archives (which I do
>remember reading, so maybe I got those).
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>Sujal
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>On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 14:23, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>>No, Gerstner made the final decision.  He said "The desktop war is over."
>>
>>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
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>
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It has me by an old email address, which forwards to me but I cannot 
mail from it anymore.  If Jamie could fix it....


Hans