__/ [ Heywood Jablowme ] on Friday 31 March 2006 01:43 \__
> On 2006-03-27 12:36:07 -0500, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
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>> | For its part Forbes was not so alarmist. Its headline calls Ballmer |
>> "bemused." For me, the key quote came when Ballmer attacked IBM and
>> | its support of the operating system:
>> | | "They promote Linux, but if there's a bug in Linux, IBM is not
>> | the responsible party to fix that. It's whoever in the community."
>> | | That's pure FUD. Of course if you have an IBM contract, IBM is going
>> | | to
>> | take responsibility for making things right. Which makes you wonder
>> | whether Ballmer's whole interview is just that ? an attempt to sew a
>> | little Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, make people fear Big Bad Microsoft
>> | (with a market cap now double that of IBM) is about to pounce, that
>> | kind of thing.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=603
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> Ballmer=Major Asshat
Gates=Principal Breign.
Roy
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