I know, this blog has grown increasingly more technology focused, and less politically focused. I’ve got some political things to say, but they’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

In the meantime, Cringely continues to write about Microsoft and the SCO controversy. He speculates that they’re going to put Windows on Unix or Linux as a shell, sort of like Mac OS X on top of Free BSD. I agree. I think it makes a lot of sense.

It reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend, a Linux enthusiast, some years ago. I called up this friend of mine, and told him that I’d heard that MS was going to port Windows to Linux, that they were requiring their PC vendors to carry MS Linux if they sold Linux machines, and that MS had added certain “expansions” to their version of Linux that the rest of the Linux community hadn’t accepted. I told him that I thought that this looked like MS was going to fork Linux, and that it had a good chance of taking the project over entirely, given the vast number of MS Linux copies it would push.

I, of course, was making it all up as a gag. As expected, my friend was aghast.

I thought it was funny. But if Cringely’s right, it’s actually happening. Pretty cool spectator sport at the very least if you ask me.

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