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Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Nov 9, 2006 6:00 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet) by flewellyn
Parent article: Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)

Glasnost, Perestroika, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact?

Nope. It was later. Much later. After detente world got war in Afgan, problems in Iran, etc.

Assume that Microsoft is the Soviet-style power in this equation

History rarely repeat itself. It rhymes. So we can not be too sure who'll win the next phase (starting in 2012?), but we do know it's not the end of story...


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