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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Ballmer's Anti-Linux rants.
>
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>| # There's no company called Linux, there's barely a Linux road map.
>| Yet Linux sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had,
>| you know, the characteristics of communism that people love so very,
>| very much about it. That is, it's free. - in 2000
>|
>| # We do not anticipate offering software on Linux. Nobody pays
>| for software on Linux. - in 2002
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| # 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, its
>| hould. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that
>| attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything
>| it touches. - in 2001
>|
>| # "We believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed
>| balance-sheet liability." - in 2006
> `----
>
> http://boycott-suse.blogspot.com/2006/11/ballmers-anti-linux-rants.html
Microsoft's attacks become more reprehensible each day. At least
they're not in the least worried about Linux - imagine how bad things
could be if they were...
--
| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio.
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