no commentary on SCO v. Novell ?

[Kevin Fries]

Apple was sitting on a bucket load of cash with no idea what to do with it.
Microsoft underestimated the strength of the Linux community.  Felt that a
few bucks and legal support to Score would cause the Linux menence to go
away... when it didn't work, they put in several more infusions of cash.

Meanwhile, with Microsoft distracted with world domination, the player that
MS saw as the lesser threat dumped bucket loads of cash into both R&D and
advertising.  This attack came out of nowhere, unless you were paying close
attention to the underlying market forces.

Apple laid in the weeds, waited for MS to over react, then hit them.  They
now increased their desktop presence by more than 10% of the total market,
are seen as the innovator they once were, an have given MS a market headache
far greater than the one they went after when they wrote Apple off for Dead.

Personally, I call that a first class sucker punch

Kevin Fries

On Apr 3, 2010 5:53 PM, "Craig White" <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 17:20 -0600, Kevin Fries wrote: > SCO was a second
class player in the UNIX wo...
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I don't recall how much money Microsoft gave to SCO but I don't recall
it being much more than a few hundred million which in corporate world
of today's finance is just chump change considering the intent to slow
open source/free software adoption.

I don't get the sucker punched by Apple comment at all. In fact, I see
Apple and Microsoft as very complicit players these days and the
competition is more of an illusion than real.

Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by
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