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From:	Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>
Subject:	Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:21:24 -0800
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Larry Hall wrote:

> The current buzz on this change was that MS was afraid 
 > too many "orphaned" 98 users (currently 25% of Windows users)
 > might "defect" to Linux rather than upgrade [...]

Oooh. I wonder what they were smoking. I seriously doubt even a tiny 
fraction of those users would even *think* about Linux, let alone think 
they could handle it themselves. We're talking about folks who think 
adding a DIMM is something they have to haul the PC back to the 
manufacturer for..

No, I see this as more of a move towards enticing people to try SFU for 
free. Once they're hooked, we'll see "SFU Professional", "SFU Enterprise 
Edition" (and dare I dream? "SFU Data Center Edition").

("The first hit's free, kid!").


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