RE: FN-FORUM: Microsoft opens DOOrS to Linux emulator

date posted 1st April 2003 17:24

Well this is the best April fools so far - So much truth in a story about
MicroSoft and it's hairy days as a *nix supplier and even the technical
correctness about posix xompliance - though MS POSIX and the rest of the
world POSIX compliance is at odds - ask any open source team re-engineering
parts of windows..

Guy

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very interesting ;)

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1139874

Microsoft opens DOOrS to Linux emulator
By James Middleton [01-04-2003]
But Redmond will still demand licence revenue

Microsoft has thrown in the towel and gone back to its very dark and distant
roots in the Unix world with a surprise announcement today that it is
working on a Linux emulator for Windows.


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