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Don't be afraid: Linux is good for you (Globe and Mail)Don't be afraid: Linux is good for you (Globe and Mail)Posted Aug 1, 2003 0:36 UTC (Fri) by Peter (guest, #1127)In reply to: Don't be afraid: Linux is good for you (Globe and Mail) by dooglio Parent article: Don't be afraid: Linux is good for you (Globe and Mail)
Boy did she react negatively, stopping short of calling me a communist. "You guys are against anyone making money with software." Well, Hummingbird's entire product line focuses on bringing Unix functionality to Windows. Kinda hard to make money doing that if everyone switches to Linux. (: Perhaps that's why your visitor got defensive. Hmmm, there's also the interesting aspect that a lot of Hummingbird software directly derives from free software (BSD and X.org, specifically). I wonder if your visitor knew that.
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Don't be afraid: Linux is good for you (Globe and Mail) Posted Aug 1, 2003 6:50 UTC (Fri) by jdthood (guest, #4157) [Link] Yes, she was probably feeling a little threatened.You could have told her that companies like hers are going
Don't be afraid: Linux is good for you (Globe and Mail) Posted Aug 1, 2003 12:55 UTC (Fri) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link] companies like hers are going UP AGAINST THE WALL when the revolution comes. Hehe. Yeah, that's basically what I meant, although I didn't think to put it quite that way. (: Come to think of it, I have to thank Hummingbird Software. It was the, ahem, suboptimal handling of file locking in their NFS client software several years ago that allowed me to get Samba in the door at my last job. (And this was after we had paid for a bunch of Hummingbird client licenses. It didn't work with our main application, so I had to find a solution that did.)
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