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I would really like to know some the misinformation of the time.

• smackeyacky 5y ago
  https://static.lwn.net/2001/0607/a/esr-big-lie.php3 https://static.lwn.net/2001/0607/a/esr-big-lie.php3 Basically piles of FUD came out of Microsoft at the time that open source licenses were literally cancer that would force private companies to publish all their code. The only effect it really had was to keep Sun selling servers for a couple of years longer as nervous purchasing managers bought the story. At the time it seemed that Microsoft thought they could move into the enterprise space where the big iron like Sun enterprise gear was being used. Microsoft were fresh off killing the SME business of Novell and had big plans of pushing further up the food chain but the thing that was driving their success (like commodity HP x86 servers) was also dragging linux in their wake. Cloud providers made the whole paradigm moot in a lot of ways. I can't say personally I was disappointed that Microsofts server OS never made it past that small/medium tier. They are fine for what they are but scaling a windows server system still sucks as much as it did in 2001.