Scott Ritchie schreef: <snip of very interesting analysis>
And this would "explain" why Wine suddenly showed up on MS's radar so publically-- a move like Apple's doesn't happen overnight, nor secretly within the industry. MS may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but even they would see the necessity to start building a framework for some form of pre-emptive strike.
Seems to me that all projects affected would want to ensure that their wagons are circled and their hatches are battened, because if the two "major minority" players jointly become able to use Windows-based applications without Windows, the trickle of migrators to both systems is likely to become a flood, and that flood will be leaking directly from MS's pockets.
And we all know how they respond to potential encroachment on "their" territory. "Competitive market"? Yeah, right.
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