__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Wednesday 27 December 2006 17:19 \__
> Dec 27 2006 13:08 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft continuously floods the media with negative
>> campaigns against FOSS, especially Linux.
>
> You mean something like this ..
>
> "The GPL was developed specifically to discourage the development of
> commercial software and eliminate the creation of any long-term
> economic value in intellectual property that emerges from a community
> development process. This license diminishes, or even eliminates, the
> symbiotic relationship between academic and government research and the
> entire business community"
>
> http://snipurl.com/15w67
>
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/8/b/28beee41-433e-4c75-bbc5-a63be283d2f7/Gpl_faq.doc
>
> DuFuS/Fuddie/Tim: what's this got to do with Linux ....
"I'm an American; I believe in the American way," continued Allchin. "I worry
if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done
enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html
Buy Microsoft, it's your patriotic duty
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| That seemed to be the message at the London launch of Microsoft Vista,
| Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 on 30 November 2006. Gordon Frazer,
| Microsoft's UK managing director, devoted most his opening speech to
| a gallimaufry of statistics and quotations intended to show that
| buying these new offerings would somehow make Britain more competitive.
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