In article <1425630.iK9UoHd5Il@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Who speaks for Microsoft on open source?
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> | Does Steve Ballmer speak for Microsoft on open source? He's the CEO, and
> | he seems to think that open source does not exist, has no right to exist,
> | and can be ground down with lawyers.
> |
> | [...]
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> | I don't know why Ballmer feels that aping the IBM strategy of 20
> | years ago is going to win Microsoft the future. He might consider
> | it didn't work out that well for IBM. Or for the guys inside the
> | building above 20 years ago, which is called the Kremlin.
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=983
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> The more they threaten their rivals, the more customers they drive away.
>
The huge army they face this time is not a corporate mass of paid
soldiers.
It's a sweeping wave of free thinking volunteers who are there because
they WANT to be, and they're bringing along BIG Linux guns, adn they
can't be paid off.
A whole new and different game. Must be frustrating for MS realizing they
can't do a damn thing about it -- just watch the opposing army GROW.
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