Well, if Microsoft doesn't have a proprietary company to attack (eg Linux is not owned by anybody), then Microsoft attacks the users of the product, who basically wrote, maintain, and freely share the fruits of their labor.
Micorsoft is really having a hard time figuring out how to extinguish open source, other than with FUD attacks. Microsoft so so bad, even organization like "Swift Boat Veteran for Truth" could learn a trick or two from them. HaHaaHaaHaaaaa. Regards, LelandJ who write, maintain, and use the fruits of you don't have a company to attac Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: >Hal Kaplan wrote: > > >>=> >>=> I can't tell who has smoking poorer quality dope, these guys >>=> or Ballmer, with his "every Linux user on the planet owes us >>=> for stealing our innovative software" line. >>=> >>=> Whil >>=> >> >>Baldmer actually said that? Well geez, if anyone knows anything about >>stealing innovation, it would be Steve. Did he say how much every Linux user >>owes? >> >> > >http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/108806.asp?source=rss > >"to the degree that people are going to deploy Linux, we want Suse Linux >to have the highest percent share of that, because only a customer who >has Suse Linux actually has paid properly for the use of intellectual >property from Microsoft." > >And: > >"anybody who has got Linux in their data center today sort of has an >undisclosed balance sheet liability" > >Also from CW: Balmer: Linux users owe Microsoft >http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005171&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1 > > > >Whil > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
