Spoken like a person who understands that business is war.
That by the way is a concept our boss tries to drum in our head at least once
a week or anytime we screw up.
Frank
On Saturday 11 August 2001 06:10 PM, you wrote:
> False administrative bounce (unarmored word).
>
> ----- Forwarded message from slug@lists.nks.net -----
>
> From: Bill <selinux@home.com>
> To: mdlug@radiusnet.net
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Pro-Linux at MSCE Site
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:24:26 -0400
>
> Recently MDLUG was approached by Microsoft reps. about the idea
> of a meeting with us.
>
> For whatever reason, MDLUG has accepted that offer.
>
> I think that is a mistake.
> I think we need to admit our mistake.
> I think we need to c*ncel the meeting.
> Forthwith.
>
> I spoke out about this originally. I am still speaking out about
> it. I think the original decision was foolish and based on a
> foundation of ego and not of reasoning. Examine, if you will,
> your motivations for engaging in dialog with an enemy who
> takes few hostages ... and kills those few.
>
> This offer of a meeting is the beginning of a lethal embrace. It
> is just the first act of a three act play ... Embrace, Extend,
> Extinguish. That is no friendly embrace; it's the hug of a boa.
>
> As you can see from the MDLUG meeting offer, the Tokyo job
> offers ( http://tlug.linux.or.jp/ ) and the "pro-Linux" MSCE
> site mentioned below, the offer of a meeting is not a local
> initiative; it is part of a carefully orchestrated embrace. It
> is timed to coincide with the backpedaling out of Redmond. Have
> you not noticed the MSFT PR people stating their bosses were
> wrong in speaking so harshly about Linux & the GPL?
>
> PR people do not state that the boss blundered if they value
> their jobs. Unless the boss told them to say that. The frontal
> assault didn't go over very well. Not in the press, not on the
> web and not in the corporate boardrooms. The above mentioned
> olive branches are flanking maneuvers. When it comes to the art
> of war, Bill Gates has no equal. Do not underestimate the man.
>
> You guys are talking like we've won and it is time to gracefully
> accept a capitulation and surrender. Little could be further
> from the truth. All we've done is get the gorilla ticked off.
> We've pricked him enough with a pin that he's starting to notice
> and react . That's no olive branch ... that's a stick.
>
> Bill
>
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