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Re: Constructive suggestions for the group....

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ [H]omer on Friday 29 June 2007 08:34 : \____
> 
>> Verily I say unto thee, that jim spake thusly:
>>
>> [snip mission statement]
>>
>>> In short...never speak ill of your competition.
>> Please be sure to forward this memo to Ballmer.
>  
> He has. Ballmer is in fact reading it as we speak.
> 
> http://schestowitz.com/Amusement/images/ballmer-office.png
> 
> Add to these all these 'secret' reports about Linux, such as the Halloween
> Memos that talk about ways of eliminating a rival which is Free software
> (software the way it used to be). Frankly, I find it hard to ignore Microsoft
> in the news only because there is usually something subtle that they do in
> order to sabotage and cut the rival's umbilical cord.
> 
> They don't compete by making good products. They compete by outmuscling the
> competition and thinking about strategies that suffocate rivals like VMWare
> and Google. Prebundling is their weapon of choice and corruption of
> interoperability/standards is another. They always make it seem like
> an 'accident', but it's very much deliberate.
> 
> Ballmer's Anti-Linux rants.
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | # 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
> 
> Jim, I agree with you that where rivals are mentioned in a negative context and
> Linux is neither directly nor indirectly involved, then posting that is
> redundant. I'll try to avoid this. I'll try to show /why/ Linux is relevant
> where it fits into the story. Even anti-piracy efforts (or lack thereof) by
> Microsoft are usually driven by the existence of Free software. 
> 

When the users of FOSS, now exceeding 300 million worldwide, and
including 165 governments, the Fortune 1,000 corporations, schools and
charities around the globe, are treated in the press as thieves by the
multiple convicted felon Microsoft, it is impossible to ignore and not
respond.

Amidst all the false allegations of 'theft' there is not one iota of
fact and as many of us quit Microsoft for the massive Microsoft
credibility gap as for the total and absolute bloat of "114,000
Microsoft Malware Virus Definitions".

It is very difficult to not respond to such criminal behavior by the
multiple convicted felon Microsoft who is recently extended for two more
years of probation for crimes against the world public.

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