Re: Interesting read :-)

Made the BBC news today, which is unusual.

I think it is all a plot by MS to get people upgraded to XP. They have
released the source to enough far-east countries now to be sure it would get
leaked - they *must* have known it would. With NT's source released, NT now
has all the drawbacks that MS has been saying is wrong with Open Source for
years, so they will have to recommend all customers upgrade to XP. What a
cunning plan. Those last few million customers holding on to NT, and
refusing to upgrade something that has worked for years, have been eating
into the profits of MS. MS got a shock when they realised that Win98 support
had to be extended due to the fact that many home users still rely on it,
and this nicely forces the hands of the business users.

It also means it is fair game for MS to search the open source archives for
anything that looks vaguely like MS code, because they can now claim that it
violates copyright since the cat is out of the bag and that all open source
developers can be assumed to have looked at the code. If you do look at it -
keep it to yourself - don't blab ;-)

That's my view :-) Let's face it - this is *not* bad for Microsoft in any
way.

-- JJ


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