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Re: MS: Open Source overlaps our IP ..

  • Subject: Re: MS: Open Source overlaps our IP ..
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:26:24 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ John Bailo ] on Monday 26 February 2007 00:19 \__

> Doug Mentohl wrote:
> 
>> 'We believe there is overlap between our IP portfolio and various open
>> source software components'
> 
> Translation:
> 
> "We have no more products."
> "Vista is a flop."
> "Office is becoming a free add on to Windows."
> "If we don't put our hooks into OSS, we will have zero revenue in 5 years."

And "We need to change the rules by putting a price tag on Free software".
It's our last hope.

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