RE: MS using other OS

Jim, Scott

OUTSTANDING CATCHES...!  Great articles...

(Seems sorta funny this qualifies as "news" given how long this has been
happening with Microskunk and the 400, or rather the "rumored" use of a 400
out-sourcing company by M$.)

jt

| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
| Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 3:08 PM
| To: midrange-l@midrange.com
| Subject: Re: MS using other OS
|
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|
| Here is a another, similar story:
| http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23348.html
|
| Interesing how often FreeBSD suddenly is coming up in the Midange-L
| mailing list, isn't it?
|
| The story that you're referring to states that "Microsoft offers
| disparaging
| remarks about open-source solutions".  That's not really true.  Microsoft
| has never made disparaging remarks about FreeBSD.  Microsoft's remarks
| have all been against the GPL licensed products such as Linux.
|
| Here's an article that touches on that.
| http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2775033,00.html
|
| IMHO, Microsoft has tried elimining both OS/400 and FreeBSD from their
| company, but Windows just isn't able to replace them.  It's just not
| robust enough.
|
|
| On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jim Franz wrote:
| >
| > we've talked (at great length about MS using AS400s in part of
| it's operations.
| > It seems we're not the only one
| > Apparently parts of Hotmail run on "open source" BSD.
| > http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15295.html
| >
| > no debate needed, just a fyi
| > jim
| >
| >
|
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