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Re: Ethics of Dealing with Evil

by jepri (Parson)
on Oct 17, 2002 at 01:27 UTC ( [id://205909]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Ethics of Dealing with Evil

Companies like Microsoft do have a reputation to maintain. Remember the howls of derision when Microsoft tried (and failed) to move Hotmail from BSD to NT? Their critics had a field day. It's reasonable for MS to want to only be associated with MS gear.

Think about the reverse... kernel.org running off a windows machine. A lot of people would see something wrong with that.

You can see why MS marketing people don't want to have to answer phone calls from the press saying "If you guys are so good, why are you using someone elses product? Maybe we should too?"

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I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

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Re^2: Ethics of Dealing with Evil
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 17, 2002 at 02:21 UTC
    I wouldn't even blink if I was told kernel.org ran on a BSD box, though. ;-)

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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