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From: robert@timetraveller.org (Robert Brockway)
Subject: [TUHS] What UNIX Artifacts Are Still Missing?
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:56:29 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1712071552450.28409@sirius.opentrend.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712070923590.35694@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> Call me a cynical old bastard (which I am), but I can't see M$ raising a flag 
> for Unix...  Wasn't it Billy Gates who reportedly said that any PC running 
> Linux is one not running Windoze, and did his best to discredit it?

Microsoft today is not the company of old.  In recent years Microsoft has 
participated in standards bodies and worked on interoperability with other 
browser vendors.  They even joined the Linux Foundation last year.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/

Cheers,

Rob


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-07  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.400.1512518427.9955.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-12-06 11:25 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-06 12:58   ` Mutiny 
2017-12-06 14:33     ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-06 17:13       ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 19:27         ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-07  6:14         ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-06 22:32       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-07  5:05         ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-07  5:46           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-07  5:40         ` Andy Kosela
2017-12-07  5:56         ` Robert Brockway [this message]
2017-12-07  6:07           ` Warner Losh
2017-12-07 17:47             ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-09  6:03               ` Nigel Williams
2017-12-07  6:14           ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-07  7:02             ` Robert Brockway
2017-12-07 16:22               ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-07 14:59             ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-07 15:40               ` Steve Simon
2017-12-07 15:42               ` Chet Ramey
2017-12-07 16:28             ` Clem Cole
2017-12-07 16:30               ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 17:55   ` Warner Losh
2017-12-07 15:14 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-07 15:36 ` Nevin Liber
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-12-06 17:59 Rudi Blom
     [not found] <mailman.398.1512513526.9955.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-12-06 11:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-05 22:45 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-12-05 22:21 Warren Toomey
2017-12-05 22:38 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-12-05 22:55 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-12-05 23:06   ` Warner Losh
2017-12-05 23:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-06  0:00 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-12-06  0:08   ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-06 15:23   ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06  5:54 ` arnold

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