Re: Linux vs. NT/95/2000 the great debate was -->Re: For those in need of some amusement.....

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

Jeffery Douglas Waddell <jwaddell@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>yep, I wonder if Microsoft would consider porting it.  Didn't they already
>make one for Solaris?
I don't think so; MS proted IE 3.?? for NT to Solaris last year, and 
NetShow has been ported to Linux, and is available for free download
from Microsoft. AFAIK no other products have been released, but there
are rumours about MS porting this or that from time to time. I haven't
heard such a rumour about Outlook, but that doesn't mean much by itself.

>I must stop you there....  Linux IS NOT Un*x.....  It is based on unix,
>but it is not and probably never will be un*x. 
Yes, true enough in the X/Open branding sense. We are speaking a *little*
broadly here, and I take "UNIX" in that context to be a number of commercial
UNIX implementations (SunOS, Solaris, SCO, HPUX, ULTRIX [or whatever it's
called this month] AIX, Digital UNIX, perhaps others I've left off). I don't
know if Free- Open- net- BSD's are legally allowed to use the term "UNIX", 
but they're UNIX to me. and Linux, which is not UNIX, but is in many ways so 
much like UNIX that is doesn't matter MOST of the time.

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