Microsoft buys stake in company tying Linux to Windows

[Fairlight]

Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> 
> I've heard that Microport had developed a way to run Xenix
> binaries under their version of Unix in the mid '80s, but when
> Hicrosoft found about it, they sent a letter to Microport
> promising to ``sue them out of business'' if they tried to sell
> the product with Xenix capabilties.  Microport could probably
> have won in court, but didn't have enough money to pay their land
> sharks so dropped the product.

Maybe it's "just business" but that seems so desperately -wrong- to
me--that you can have a perfectly legitimate business and be intimidated
into dropping something because you're not big enough to be able to foot
the bill to stand up for your rights.  I'm no advocate of government
interference, but it seems to underline some blatant flaws in the existing
legal system when things like this can happen.

> Remember that Bill Gates father is a lawyer, and the M$ legal department is
> larger than most software companies.  Remember too that it was Microsoft
> lawyers who finally took out the Borg after the Enterprise infected the
> Borg ship with the Windows virus and Solitaire.

You -had- to say that, didn't you?  :)  That brought to mind the ID4
infection of the mothership with the virus, which brought to mind Clarke's
practically plagiarised (he actually jokingly accused Roland and Emmerich
of temporal plagiarism in his Afterword) ending to "3001: Final Oddessey".
Now I've got this mental image of one of the flying Windows from the
screensaver chasing the 2km-long Monolith through space, the Monolith
screaming and yelping like a dog the whole way!  Ohboy.  :)

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