Re: [SLUG] incredible statement

From: James Martinez (jmarti16@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 07:34:47 EDT


I think it shows how much Microsoft is realizing the threat of Linux
when Open Source goes from just being UnAmerican to a Cancer.

On 01 Jun 2001 20:26:52 -0400, patrick wrote:
>
>
> speaking about Linux
>
> A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will
> force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only
> healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds
> open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to
> everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. 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, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is
> a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything
> it touches. That's the way that the license works.
>
>
> microsoft is very scared of Linux. it will be interersting to see what
> they do in the future to destroy Linux.
>



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