__/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 21 September 2006 14:15 \__
> On Thursday 21 September 2006 13:04 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | "And yet while Microsoft engineers were trudging through their death
>> | march, the open source community shipped a series of major upgrades to
>> | the Linux operating system. How can hackers, scattered across the globe,
>> | working for no pay, linked only by the net and shared values,
>> | apparently outperform the smartest software company on the planet?"
>> `----
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2339&Itemid=449
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> Yes indeed - and the "quoted quote" is from:-
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> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1868642,00.html
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> Did you perhaps post that one while I was away, so that I missed it?
> It's fairly positive(!!!) about Linux and OSS, and was published by one of
> the UK's better (imo) nationals.
>
> (If you didn't post it, why not - explain quickly or I'll halve your salary
> (grin))
It's Frank (Au79) who posted this. Oddly, this initially appeared in a
publication from India. It reached some British ones a few days later and
been used since as a valuable reference to Microsoft's demise.
Best wishes,
Roy
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