What really amaze and amuse me is that Ballmer and company can say and do
whatever they want and Linux and the Open Source software will never go
away!!
This thought must really keep them up at night :).
Federico
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Smitty
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:03 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] incredible statement
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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