Re: UNIX VS MICROSOFT

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:48:19 GMT

On Thu, 27 May 2004 19:27:14 +0200, Birger Blixt <Birger.Blixt@uab.ericsson.se> wrote:
>
>
> On 2004-05-26 22:52, Joseph Fenn wrote:
>> Whatever happened to the big battle few years back between UNIX
>> (Suncom) and MS (gates) about the basic structure of the INTERNET.
>> As I recall MS was trying to revvise everything to conform more
>> to MS likeing, and Suncomm was doing battle to keep it all
>> based on UNIX itself. Anybody remember that?
>> Kokomo Joe
>>
<snip non-compliant sig>
>>
>
> Everyone lost.
>
> /bb

:-) Good one.

It seems now that just about everyone wants to turn the Internet into a
virtual shopping mall. <holds nose>

AC 

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