>> utilities) for Linux. If it is IE, the addition of MS as an application
>> provider for Linux should be benifitial to us.
>
>Beneficial?? First off, if MS makes a product for Linux, this means a
portion
>of the Linux community will be at least partially dependent upon Microsoft
>products... this means, in the end, we CAN'T DO without Microsoft! That is
what
>many other software developers are stuck in... as well as hardware vendors.
Of
>course, I would boycott any MS product made for Linux... but some people
might
>not. That's their own choice, but it still helps Microsoft eventually
topple
>Linux right on its head as it has so many other operating systems. (e.g.
>DR-DOS, OS/2...)
Well your at least partially to late. Their version of Apache for use with
FrontPage 98 can already run on Linux. And how exactly are they suppose to
topple Linux by making applications for it? DR-DOS never had much of a
market. OS/2 also never had much of a market and died because it LACKED
applications amoung other things. MacOS shrank because it force one into a
proprietary architechture that cost much more and also lacked the amount of
applications that DOS and Windows had. So I do not see how they are going
to kill Linux by giving us an app written by a brand name company that RUNS
on Linux.
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