On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 23:51, Eli Marmor wrote:
> > Microsoft maintains dozens of UNIX projects, and is involved in many > others. > Microsoft actully developed and sold their own version of Unix called Xenix. I actually talked with an ex Microsoft employee that claimed that even as late as the late 80s the internal email system in Microsoft ran on it. This lead to some very funny things, including early Linux system that had some text files (I don't remmeber if they were keymaps, or shell scripts or something like that) that actually had (C) Microsoft Corporation in their head because their were ported from Xenix. In addition, several years ago I ran across an interesting article on a Microsoft internal homepage for OEMs which explained why the original Microsoft Windows CDs are safe from viruses and the OEm whouldn't worry about infecting a client with a birus from one of them. One of the basic points was that the entire CD manfacturing proccess was done on Unix machines (I think *BSD) and since these were immune from viruses it was safe... :-) In short, Microsoft is a big business. They put on a "windows" only front for the PR but they are not an all windows shop and never were just like I'm pretty sure (but don't really know or care) some people at Sun run Windows. One thing is for sure: they are *not* 'the enemy', whatever that may be. I don't like to use Windows personally, but I'm not a religious zealot about it. I feel limited by Windows and find to be a 'bad deal' for most of what I do but I don't think its the spur of Satan. Kids, distrust zealots. They're either naive or trying to sell you something (no, Noam, I don't mean you :-) Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "My god, they are here. They're watching us. They're inserting pieces of code into BK repository while Linus is sleeping!!!" -- 'adasi' Krecicki on lkml. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
