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You bluster, Ray, but you are defeated on that point, IMO. ERS cast the attribution as adoption by the Microsoft Central Committee and that was a great leap that was never corroborated. The fact that no action has occurred in the intervening 7 years is proof enough that ERS was just whistling Dixie.

products Some figure like that was widely reported some months ago, Ray, and there was a prediction that the rate would accelerate and swamp IE in the process. Is that still happening? It hasn't made the news that I'm aware of, but I don't have such a fetish regarding someone else's opinion, preferring my own as you have seen and so I don't scour the news.

some with Oh, the issue is "11" then? OK. So what do you mean by "consecutive?" SEC filings are consecutive, but report vs same quarter prior year. Is that your definition, too, or are you figuring it differently?

of me? How do you make the leap from not a knockout to a prediction of a win?

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How can an opinion or a hypothetical proposition be "lying", Ray? You are sounding just like the COLA choirboys with their heads in the sand fearing to see the devil coming to take them away! LOL!!!

In any case, I would not have such faith in IBM's reluctance to join the rest of the industry in a move to get the amateurs out of the business and simplify the messages for everyone. If IBM holds some advantage via their IP, they are not so likely to give it away to defend people who want to chip away at their empire along with Microsoft's. And the IP is not likely to be aligned all that well. Microsoft appears to have given Sun some access to inner workings of Windows servers in terms of proprietary protocols and such and it is not so farfetched to think that Sun could not then offer a Solaris feature that had some optimal connectivity to Windows that might sway the IT customer and block the linux compebreastor in the same way. What would IBM do? Is there a corresponding move vis-a-vis mainfram connectivity? Just hypothetically speaking, of course.

is and It Well, Ray, linux is nothing other than a recast of unix in a commoditized form. Can you dispute that?

That heritage and buttociation puts it more into the sailing ship category than Windows. Windows is the new way, linux is the old. BTW, the sailing ship vs steam ship contrast is kind of forced for most people who have no idea as to who was big in either market. Although nuclear reactor powered ships are a kind of steam ship, most of the non-nuclear ships these days are gas turbine powered. For many a better analogy might be the notion that none of the big railroad companies got into the airline business, but even that is kind of dated since very few people have much knowledge of railroads and even the airlines are having difficulty even with no new technology compebreastion.