Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:05:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:05:54 -0500 Received: from s142-179-222-244.ab.hsia.telus.net ([142.179.222.244]:25656 "EHLO bluetooth.WNI.AD") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:05:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3DF66754.3020901@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:14:44 -0700 From: Herman Oosthuysen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Serge Kuznetsov CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is this going to be true ? References: <050c01c2a091$77564600$9c094d8e@wcom.ca> In-Reply-To: <050c01c2a091$77564600$9c094d8e@wcom.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Dec 2002 22:13:38.0007 (UTC) FILETIME=[6387A670:01C2A099] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 30 Probably not true, since MS doesn't like the GPL. However, MS may release *nix applications any time they want to. Way back in prehistory, they did supply unix applications and currently Apple uses a kind of BSD, so to release a Linux version of MS Office and other utilities, would be very easy for them as they just need to recompile the Apple versions. Serge Kuznetsov wrote: > I am just curious if someone has an opinion for the > following link? > > > Research Firm: Microsoft Will Use Linux by 2004: > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=&e=5&u=/nf/20021210/tc_nf/20210 > > All the Best! > Serge. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/