Fork off Mr Ballmer!
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| Perhaps I am being too naive or too cynical. I'm not an IT professional
| or a business consultant and ill-equipped to tease out the machinations
| and tactics of large corporations but like most other GNU/Linux users
| I know that Microsoft is (in)famous for retailing an inferior product
| and deploying a lot of FUD in doing so. It may come as a something of
| a surprise therefore to discover that Mark Shuttleworth of
| Canonical/Ubuntu fame has been accused of spreading FUD too! He made
| a pitch to Novell developers to jump ship and join the Debian-based
| distro. I read some of the reactions. They were unanimously hostile.
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| As a parting note, I will make this observation: when Warren Buffett
| donated his billions to Bill Gates' charity to dispose of at his will,
| Gates gave Buffett his first edition of Adam Smith's The Wealth of
| Nations. Perhaps someone should have underlined the following passage:
| "men of the same trade seldom meet together, even for the purposes
| of amusement, but the conversation turns into a conspiracy against
| the public". Need I say more?
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/fork_off_steve_ballmer
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| My background is finance and accounting....
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| However, the Gates Buffet foundation grant is nothing more than a shell
| game in which control of assets for both Gates and Buffet remain the same.
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| THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH BY THESE TWO WILL BE
| MUCH MORE MASSIVE BECAUSE THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY ANY TAXES.
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