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Re: [News] [OSS/Linux] Progress for Sun's Open Source Procecessor; Did Microsoft Ask Sun to Sue Linux Users?

  • Subject: Re: [News] [OSS/Linux] Progress for Sun's Open Source Procecessor; Did Microsoft Ask Sun to Sue Linux Users?
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 22:47:46 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1528040.qPsPooh1OT@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6183562.html
> 
> Speculation: Did Microsoft Try to Get Sun to Sue Linux?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Today, Pamela Jones (of Groklaw) has a little insight. Based on
> | Jonathan Schwarz?s blog, she suspects that Microsoft may have
> | tried to encourage Sun to sue Linux (the infamous 'proxy
> | manoeuvre'). Here is what Jonathan says...
> `----
> 
> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/16/sun-microsoft-speculation/

"With business down and customers leaving, we had more than a few
choices at our disposal. We were invited by one company to sue the
beneficiaries of open source. We declined. We could join another and sue
our customers. That seemed suicidal."

Filthy bastards.

Does Microsoft ever actually *create* anything, rather than *destroy*,
other than money and FUD.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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