FW: 100% of yesterday's second sealed

[RWare at INTERPLASTIC.com]

How did you calculate that?  

Don't worry about MS trying to peddle influence.  It won't work.  People
pick based on utility.  They pay what they think something is worth.  If MS=

prices themselves out of the market people will find alternatives.  If MS i=
s
too high Linux wins.  If you think that if people are exposed to MS first
they will never switch, then you don't have much faith in how good Linux is=
.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:=09Kim Holburn [SMTP:kim.holburn at anu.edu.au]
> Sent:=09Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:09 PM
> To:=09RWare at INTERPLASTIC.com; linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject:=09RE: FW: 100% of yesterday's second sealed
> 
> At 3:20 PM -0600 02/11/14, RWare at INTERPLASTIC.com wrote:
> >How much has the open source community donated in dollars? 
> 
> In percentage of earnings from licensing opensource software, greater tha=
n
> Microsoft.
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From:=09Kim Holburn [SMTP:kim.holburn at anu.edu.au]
> >> Sent:=09Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:02 PM
> >> To:=09Richard Cottrill; CLUG List
> >> Subject:=09Re: FW: 100% of yesterday's second sealed
> >>
> >> You might like to look at this article on that subject:
> >>
> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28063.html
> >> Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $421m to fight Linux
> >>
> >> At 1:26 PM +0000 2002/11/14, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> >> >"Bill Gates' donation of $100 million dollars to India wouldn't have
> >> anything to do with the Indian government's good idea to take up
> >> open-source software would it?  Surely not.  Surely Bill Gates would
> never
> >> cheapen his philanthropic work by attaching conditions that benefited
> his
> > > business interests!
> 
> 
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