On Saturday 02 June 2001 11:02 am, you wrote:
> When Ballmer speaks of the "cancer" he is describing the microsoft
> operation precisely. Listen to them, they are talking about themselves.
> Smitty
i think u are right. i do find it interesting that the political reality
in washington may be to anything and everything to and i quote
from a texas senator "create jobs". i wouldnt find it surprising
to hear that microsoft is working with senators and congressmen
to all but ban linux in the united states. i know this sounds
crazy, but it would not suprise me to begin to hear this kind
of statements floated to the press to see what kind of response
they would receive.
>
> 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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