__/ [ Chris Wilkinson ] on Thursday 11 May 2006 03:39 \__
> Hi there,
>
> chrisv wrote:
>> Blammer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"There's no innovation that we've seen come out of -- at least Linux,"
>>>Ballmer said Tuesday. "Linux is a clone of a 30-years-old operating
>>>system (called Unix)."
>>
>> What a lying POS. He'd make a good usenet troll.
>
> He probably *is* a great usenet troll already. Usenet is free, so of
> course people like Ballmer would be tempted to use it as another way
> of spreading their FUD...
Look at the bright side. It could be much, much worse. This time, for a
change, he did not associate Linux with "some guy in China" [1] and the
GPL/Linux with cancer [2]. One day, I hope, they will come to justice. Dirty
business practices will have history repeat itself [3].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUD
[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot
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