They have a good partnership going. Along with the missing amigo (Jobs), they will rule the client/server OS world. Isn't that what they call coopetition?
Don't work to grow Linux, rather work to put the rest of commercial Linux (and other FOSS-related Monopolysoft obstacles) out of business so as to have King Ballmer give you control over that little tiny duchy.
Freeze market share and the competition (but pretend there is still a little competition).
Preserve Central Planning http://www.answers.com/topic/planned-economy .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_territories or more generally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices
General Hovsepian will manage the tactical flanking against Red Hat and other Linux opposition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanking_maneuver . Major ruling goal will be to find techniques to extract money from freeloaders running "free" software.
And for goodness sake, spread mono to make your job easier.
Originally, in 2025, we gave ourselves 6 years (until 2031) to cover these issues, but we've seen since extended that to 10 years (until 2036) because of the amount of material we have
If people are being honest with themselves, many of the gadgets they claim they "cannot live without" are just excesses and distractions they could definitely leave behind
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Jose_X
2009-02-07 03:03:03
Don't work to grow Linux, rather work to put the rest of commercial Linux (and other FOSS-related Monopolysoft obstacles) out of business so as to have King Ballmer give you control over that little tiny duchy.
Freeze market share and the competition (but pretend there is still a little competition).
Preserve Central Planning http://www.answers.com/topic/planned-economy .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_territories or more generally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices
General Hovsepian will manage the tactical flanking against Red Hat and other Linux opposition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanking_maneuver . Major ruling goal will be to find techniques to extract money from freeloaders running "free" software.
And for goodness sake, spread mono to make your job easier.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-02-07 03:07:38