Ten Tech Blunders: Whoops, We Stepped in It!
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| In a horrible case of foot-in-mouth that revealed deep fear behind
| a thin mask of disdain, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer compared Linux
| to cancer. Ouch!
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/11070_3679516_1
Related:
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| "Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the
| company completely lost its mind?
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| Once upon a time, Microsoft executives confined
| their criticism of Linux and free software to old-fashioned FUD
| -- fear, uncertainty and doubt. Linux wasn't good enough for
| enterprise-class systems, they declared. You couldn't get
| quality support, and it was too hard and clunky for average users.
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| Fair enough. But now, judging by comments made Wednesday by
| Microsoft's operating systems chief Jim Allchin (and reported
| by Bloomberg News), it turns out that free and open-source
| software is something far worse than anyone could possibly have
| imagined. It is nothing less than a threat to the American
| way of life! "
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html
Interesting that quite suddenly Microsoft pretends to love Open Source...
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