Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 21:31, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 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.
>
agreed.

Best of wishes,

Sasha