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Rob Landley wrote:

> So how exactly DOES MS expect to stop the Linux folks from reverse 
> engineering .NET apps?  Patents?  Giving up on the client side and moving to 
> an ASP business model (toe to toe with AOL)?  Constant gratuitous 
> compatability changes to try to prevent all those nasty GPL viruses from 
> evolving an immunity to their new proprietary drug?  (Without, of course, 
> being obvious enough to trigger a third antitrust trial after the 1995 and 
> 1998 ones...)

They probably *want* people to port the .NET VM to Linux.  You should 
have seen their diagrams...  Lots of pretty boxes saying how the various 
parts of .NET work and a small greyed out area at the bottom saying 
'Win32'.  They kept saying 'Cross platform' and 'Open standards' (the 
VM* has been submitted to ECMA apparently)....

Of course when that happens everyone will continue using MS software, 
but on top of their chosen OS.  MS make more $$$ (we keep buying 
Exchange, Office, etc. but running them on Linux) and they are happy. 
MS Exchange runs on AS400/Solaris/etc., so it becomes an 'Enterprise' 
solution that PHBs throughout the world inflict on us, and MS make even 
*more* $$$.

Tony

* aka. 'Common Language Runtime'
-- 
"Two weeks before due date, the programmers work 22 hour days
  cobbling an application from... (apparently) one programmer
  bashing his face into the keyboard." -- Dilbert

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