[lug] Linux Not Competition says Microsoft...

[Andrew Diederich]

They're probably losing money on the upgrade price, anyway.  I'm sure they
use it just to get market share from other vendors, anyway.  (I think that's
what everyone uses it for.)  But imagine the percentage of upgrades they'd
sell from linux!  I'd buy the upgrade every time I needed to buy an MS
license, and all because of a free linux CD I have lying around.  I don't
know if _anyone_ can afford selling "upgrades" to a free OS!

-Andrew
andrew at netdelivery.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Ashton [mailto:gfa at idiom.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 15:04
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Linux Not Competition says Microsoft...
> 
> 
> 
> I was looking up some licensing info on Windows2000 and made an
> interesting discovery.
> 
> Microsoft offers competitive upgrade pricing for all sorts of products
> including Banyan Vines.  Linux was not one of these operating systems-
> hence, Microsoft must not think of them as competition.
> 
> Hmm... It's stilted thinking on my part, I am sure.
> 
> -Glenn Ashton
> 
> 
> 
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