On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:38:54 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> As [H]omer said, one line of FUD is worth a thousand lawsuits. The damage
> has been done and even if Ballmer refuses to say anything more, the fear
> among the mis/less informed will linger on. It was only about 5 months ago
> that he spewed out another line of FUD. Something along the lines of "we
> owe it to our shareholders".
>
> Bear in mind, of course, that the patent threat and the SCO case has led
> to considerable doubt and delays before the migration of Munich to Linux
> began.
You know, two could play this game. Does Microsoft indemnify Windows
applications developers, or cover the cost of a total code rewrite, should
any of that nasty viral GPL find its way into their commercial products
via Microsoft's development tools? There's a lot of source code out there,
you know, and Microsoft programmers are under a lot of time pressure. It
could happen. Really.
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"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the
exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
- Frederick Douglas
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