Microsoft wins Linux award

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Thanks Bink of bink.nu for this one. Yea.. you read it right. Microsoft wins Linux award :cheeky:
Microsoft was a surprise winner in the open source awards announced at LinuxWorld last week.
The company's Services for Unix 3.0 won the award for best system integration software in the Open Source Product Excellence Awards.

Easy to miss among the 10 product category awards announced on the last day of the show, Services for Unix 3.0 supports Red Hat Linux 7.0 as well as the Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Hewlett Packard HP-UX Unix flavours.

But it is still a Windows-based product, with the user needing to run Windows NT4, 2000 or XP Professional. The Unix/Linux element is needed in order to access the Unix operating systems.

A purist might therefore argue that it is not open source at all.

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View: Microsoft Services for UNIX Home

View: LinuxWorld 2003 - Press Releases

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#1 smek on 28 Jan 2003 - 21:40

lol thats actualy funny

#2 Spyder on 28 Jan 2003 - 21:42

"a purist" ... omfg lmao

#3 als345 on 28 Jan 2003 - 22:18

humm

#4 Eduardo on 28 Jan 2003 - 22:21

go, MS, go !!!

#5 ir0nw0lf on 28 Jan 2003 - 23:18

That's about all I think I say about this.

#6 dismuter on 28 Jan 2003 - 23:48

I wonder what Microsoft has to say about that. They must be surprised somehow.

#7 wzoo1 on 29 Jan 2003 - 02:40

LOL! I am really suprised at this! :-D

(2 replies) #8 GaMMa on 29 Jan 2003 - 03:50

Lol I find this to be a joke the LinuxWorld Expo decided to pull. MS feels proud that they've recieved this award, while the very people who gave them the award mock them behind their backs...

#8.1 JaggedFlame on 29 Jan 2003 - 04:15

Services for Unix is actually pretty good. They deserved the award (and they know they do), regardless of whether or not they're being mocked.

#8.2 jkuy9 on 29 Jan 2003 - 21:16

[neoquote=#8.1 by JaggedFlame]Services for Unix is actually pretty good.[/neoquote] It is indeed. I was amazed at how good it was when I first used it. It proves that Microsoft can develop some excellent, stable and powerful software

(1 reply) #9 gameguy34 on 29 Jan 2003 - 04:14

hey? wheres all the linux guys saying that its not a fair contest cause microsoft bought linuxworld or something? lmao

#9.1 Rambo2000 on 29 Jan 2003 - 13:08

It's a funny old world, not that it means that much, I think they are trying to pull Microsoft into the Linux world so they make software on it, in affect, looking after Microsoft intrest, because if Microsoft stayed out of the Linux world compleatly, other companys fill the gap and Microsoft will go down hill once Linux takes a bg part of the market. Linux is great because no one owns it, as that award shows, if it was a company, they would never say anything good about Microsoft as they are the rival, but Linux works diffrent because no one controls and owns it.

#10 soMexican on 29 Jan 2003 - 04:16

Newsflash: Tux the Linux Penguin caught sucking Bill Gates' Wang

#11 guru on 29 Jan 2003 - 11:49

now i have seen everything

#12 kjordan2001 on 29 Jan 2003 - 13:16

Talk about irony

#13 DOCa Cola on 29 Jan 2003 - 21:04

whahahaha

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