Re: Is the GPL all encompassing?

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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> I believe Microsoft is quite nonplussed that their penetration
> into server markets has been blunted by free OS alternatives.

That seems to be a frail reed indeed.  Microsoft has gone from zero server 
market share (at the advent of NT) to about 40% in terms of the dollar value 
of new servers sold annually using Windows server OS and about 50% in 
numerical units shipped.  That is a pretty impressive capture rate and it 
all occurred in the same timeframe that Linux was evolving.  Linux has made 
gains, to be sure, but almost all at the expense of traditional Unix system 
sales.  Does that "blunt" Microsoft's opportunities and progress or is it 
just serving to greatly weaken their traditional Unix vendor opponents?