Re: Would HP even consider offering customers VMS under Scenarios A, B, or C? Nah.

From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 06/05/03 

Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 01:37:47 GMT

"Bill Gunshannon" <bill@cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message
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> In article
<L9wDa.352508$w7k.286217@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
> "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> writes:
> >
> > "Bill Gunshannon" <bill@cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message
> > news:bblaor$aju87$2@ID-135708.news.dfncis.de...
> >> In article
> > <71pDa.349596$w7k.110575@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
> >> "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> writes:
> >> > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1115156,00.asp
> >> >
> >> > Killing Linux
> >> >
> >> > June 2, 2003
> >> > By John C. Dvorak
> >> >
> >>
> >> I stopped readin his drivel back during his Dec Professional
days.
> >> He obviosly hasn't gotten better since he, too, started singing
the
> >> praises of the PC. As clueless as ever.
> >
> >
> > I was party to a civil court action about 2 years ago wherein a
number
> > of very large banks and exchange members went up against other
> > exchange members who were generally very small players by
comparison
> > from a capitialization viewpoint, but not by volume of trading. It
was
> > a pitched battle both in and out of court, lasting approximately
10
> > months. All for a lousy $1 million bucks. And quite costly in
legal
> > fees for some of the litigants. And quite distracting for others.
In
> > the end, a settlement was reached that was not entirely
satisfactory
> > for a considerable number of the litigants.
> >
> > It may be drivel to some, but the point Dvorak makes - that
strange
> > things can happen in a courtroom, is to be heeded. And strange
things
> > can happen when the parties involved are bullheaded in their own
ways.
> >
>
> Maybe so, but it doesn't change the fact that this battle is not
> likely to have any long term effect on Linux in general. The worst
> it can do is make the current keeper of the kernel remove the
offending
> code and considering that Linux has been around along time before
IBM
> got into the picture, any leakage from AIX is likely to be trivial
at
> best.
>
> He also seems to ignore the main point which is that:
> ((Linux != "the open source movement") && (GNU != "the open source
movement"))
>
> The world is not going to go ringin to billyware no matter what
happens
> to Linux or the FSF. There was open source software bfore them and
there
> will continue to be after them.

I agree completely. But there will be FUD in the minds of some
corporations, large and small, and that also provides *some*
opportunity for VMS....if it were ever marketed. That was my point.