Re: IS MICROSOFT SECRETLY USING OPEN SOURCE?

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:28:52AM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> Would you be amused to learn that RedHat employees use Windows?
> (in fact, we saw a kind of official mail from one of them on this
> list recently, remember?)
> 
> One can use open source software in one's business, and
> considering its quality and microsoft's pragmatism I'd be
> rather surprised to learn that Microsoft doesn't. And the fact
> that UNIX is much better then Windows on the servers (at least)
> is no news either.
> 
I think the objection comes in the form of How can they bash 'Opensource'
and claim not to use it at all because it is a threat to companies who do
use it when they actually use it themselves and actually use BSD code to
augment their own products. In other words, MS is lying again, and while this 
isn't very surprising it is funny to see them caught in the lie. A bit of a
side note, but I have never heard RH claim that they never use any MS
product.

//Matt