Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> FOSS Community, Microsoft And Reconciliation
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | I had a fair amount of respect for Neil McAllister until today. In
> | his article, McAllister is calling on the FOSS community to "to set
> | aside their pride, recognise (sic) their place in the larger software
> | market and start working to build bridges, rather than fortresses."
> | Nowhere in his article does McAllister suggest that Microsoft should
> | change its behavior. Nowhere did McAllister suggest that Microsoft
> | should stop abusing others. Nowhere did McAllister suggest that
> | Microsoft consider making a public acknowledgment of the way it has
> | treated the FOSS community. In his view, Microsoft has the flowers;
> | therefore, we should go back home.
> `----
>
> http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/69311/index.html
McAllister has that obvious "indoctrinated" mentality: he's a believer,
and what it is he believes in is a lie; that Microsoft is the "fatherly"
benefactor and the dissenters are just "naughty children".
The reality is that Microsoft is a serial rapist, and we are its victims.
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K.
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