Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:21:24 -0800 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <6 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20040114190557 DOT 03817d90 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20040105) In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040114190557.03817d90@127.0.0.1> 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!"). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/