Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:53:16 +1000
Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > This company is struggling for its survival in its current
> > > state as the overwhelming leader of the market, if it does nothing, it
> > > will fail.
> >
> > Microsoft is "struggling for its survival"? How amusing.
> >
> read the full sentence. Struggling for survival as an effective monopoly 
> holder. It has already lost some 20% market share to Linux, meaning that it 
> is most definitely in an uncomfortable position. They have to do something. I 
> thought the meaning of my sentence was obvious, but since you have not read 
> all of it, clearly it was not.

Hehe - actually I did read it, and I understood what you meant. I still
don't think that MS are "Struggling for survival as an efective monopoly
holder" - at least not yet. 

Fair enough to call me out on my selective quoting though :)

On the whole, I think it's probably time to call a halt on this thread. At
least, I don't intend to feed the flames any further :)

You are entitled to your opinion, and others to theirs. 

Cheers,

Peter

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