Intel to cut Linux out of the content market 4261

Sleep well tonight. Predicated on the uneasiness of "Dan" who had been taught since childhood that it is wrong to share books", the example is, was, and will remain ridiculous. (The only reason I was ever given as a cild for not lending books to friends was that they are often not returned. One suspects that this is what "Dan" was told too, when he was preoccupied with worrying about the boogie-man.) If anything, you have understated the predatory nature of MS. But Bill Gates has not been even nominated to the US Supreme Court, and that is unlikely to change. MS has many threats, and does indeed react to them in a mafioso fashion, for example Java, OS-2 (against which he got a lot of help from IBM's inepbreastude). Yet there are no signs that Java will ever be outlawed, and apparently even the undercutting hasn't worked all the well. There are whole governments that have recognized that Linux fives a far bigger bang for the budgetary buck than Windows, and causes less trouble. Linux is not Napster; even the Wily Harvard Dropout can't make it look like Napster. Linux has other problems though. that prevent it from becoming a feasible subsbreastute for the home desktop of The Millions. MS will have to content itself with relying on those to preserve its virtual monopoly.

-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel