NT & Linux
Peter Breton
pbreton at cs.umb.edu
Wed May 29 18:36:29 EDT 1996
> > Lots of people are doing this, even Windows NT people (I'm on a Windows
> > NT mailing list, and it's amazing how many of them talk about Linux). You
> > will not get any help from Microsoft, who seem to be actively hostile to
> > Unix in general and Linux in particular (gee, I can't imagine why!)
> Linux in particular? How so? Are there any signs that show they think
> it's a threat? Are they even tracking it's development? Thinking of
> ways to foil it?
It's more of a mindset. They can conceive (albeit reluctantly) of valid
reasons to run a commercial UNIX instead of NT (for example, as a
firewall). The idea of a free UNIX seems to be too much to take.
I'd guess that officially they consider Linux beneath their notice.
Curiously, I did correspond with a guy from Microsoft who told me that
NTEmacs is somewhat popular at Microsoft (maybe 2% of the programmer's
use it, as measured by an internal mailing list). I wonder if they have a
similar list for Linux? :-)
Peter
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