Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> This 'article' from the black-tie journalism is appalling. Once again they
> portray Linux as something that is favoured by "geeks" who have "an
> anti-Microsoft movement".
>
> http://www.thestreet.com/s/the-geek-portfolio/newsanalysis/stockpickr/10370032.html?puc=_googlen%20cm_ven&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA#8605922038525611843
>
> They still portray Linux as some sort of devil.
>
> Here is a good one from Gilberto Gil, who is a famous Linux advocate:
>
> http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=54143
>
> Ironically, it's posted under "rebelion". Didn't Bill Gates rebel against
> freedom and user's rights some decades ago?
The trouble with this is that it's not so much anti-Microsoft as
anti-what-Microsoft-do. It's anti lock-in, anti closed-source,
anti-proprietary code, anti-patent-trolling/fudding, anti-fud,
anti-vapourware, anti-blame-the-user, anti-lobby-away-citizens-rights,
anti-manipulate-standards-bodies, etc.
If Microsoft happen to do all those, then they will be in the firing
line, but it's not really about Microsoft, it's about (or should be)
anyone who does such things.
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