[CoLoCo] The Beginning of the End

[TheZorch]

Kevin Fries wrote:
> Michael, you are scaring me!
>
> I am old enough to remember XeniX (shuddering!)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
>
>   
Sometimes I have that effect on people.  Microsoft wouldn't have as much 
leeway if they developed a Linux OS.  They'd have to comply with the 
GPL, which means they'd have to release their source code.  They CAN get 
around that by making certain programs Proprietary but all that'll do is 
alienate them from the more diehard of Linux users.  They cannot make 
the whole OS proprietary but they don't necessarily have to give it away 
free either; ie, Xandros, Linspire.

While they'd be restrained from business-as-usual for how they normally 
operate they'd be free to innovate as much as they want with the OS and 
maybe even, Kami-sama forbid, develop their own Desktop Environment 
which perfectly mimics the look and feel of Windows.  This would be sort 
of like how Apple slapped the Mac OS look and feel on top of BSD/Unix.

But, as long as Steve "Playground Bully" Balmer is in charge of 
Microsoft this will never happen.  He is the #1 reason why the company 
is going down hill.  Ever since he took over the full day-to-day 
operation of the company from Bill Gates, MS has been on a slow but 
steady nose dive.

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