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> * Hadron peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>>>> Microsoft's annual report: A study in open-source awareness...and
>>>> ignorance
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>>>>| In reading through Microsoft's annual report, I am struck by how far the
>>>>| company has come in appreciating the threat that open source brings to
>>>>| Redmond.
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>>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10005379-16.html
>>>
>>> I'm also shocked by just how ill-informed the company continues to be
>>> with regard to open source as a business strategy. Steve Ballmer has
>>> revealed this before in his quips about "Open source won't pay our
>>> bills," but here Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a
>>> public document: . . .
>>
>> Look. You're supposed to be a computer pro.
>>
>> If you're going to quote do it properly. Either boy the text or stick it
>> in quotes.
>
> "Boy" the text? What does that mean?
>
> In any case, indenting text is a perfectly legitimate means of quoting
> text that does not come from a Usenet post.
>
> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/
>
> I don't really like the
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> and I have no interest in searching for such quotes. If I did, I'd use
> <quote></quote>.
KNode does these quotes, so it's quick.
ALT-T-B.
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