When Ballmer speaks of the "cancer" he is describing the microsoft
operation precisely. Listen to them, they are talking about themselves.
Smitty
James Martinez wrote:
>
> I think it shows how much Microsoft is realizing the threat of Linux
> when Open Source goes from just being UnAmerican to a Cancer.
>
> On 01 Jun 2001 20:26:52 -0400, patrick wrote:
> >
> >
> > speaking about Linux
> >
> > A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will
> > force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only
> > healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds
> > open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to
> > everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the
> > license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the
> > rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something
> > in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is
> > a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything
> > it touches. That's the way that the license works.
> >
> >
> > microsoft is very scared of Linux. it will be interersting to see what
> > they do in the future to destroy Linux.
> >
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