Microsoft to license Unix code

Richard Sharpe rasharpe at earthlink.net
Mon May 26 23:02:01 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 16:50, Bayard Coolidge wrote:
> >>> They aren't the richest corporation in the world for nothing.

No M$ is not the richest IBM is by far and could buy M$ with pocket
change.

> 
> They are, however, a convicted felon, since the court is still
> working on their punishment, and their appeal has not been
> filed yet (IIRC), much less adjudicated.
> 
> They need to watch their step very, very carefully on this one.
> 
> Frankly, I think the money would be better spent on doing
> some QC work to ensure that their products weren't quite
> so buggy, but that's their problem. Since I refuse to use their
> stuff anyway, I could care less. 
> 
> Just my 20 millidollars' worth,
> 
> Bayard
> 
> 
> 
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