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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Is this going to be true ?
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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> > > Research Firm: Microsoft Will Use Linux by 2004:
> > > [trim]
> >
> > Over Bill Gates' dead body.  The Microsoft Corporation is of the genuine
> > belief that Microsoft Windows is the operating system of the future.
> 
> Wait a moment, didn't they say that OS/2 was the operating
> system of the future ?
> 
> And what about that overly complex internet thingy, that'd
> never take off, people would use MSN instead.
> 
> We have always been at war with Oceania.

640K

> > The following scenarios are far more likely.
> 
> They'll have no choice but to follow their customers around.
> A corporation can't exist without clients.

There is one option: brainwash customers.  MS is used to doing it.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
mru@users.sf.net
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