In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Locke
<johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:57:45 -0700
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> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:39:09 +0000 (UTC), Singer <singer42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>news:1343749.g95iC3cthz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>> The "Windows World" Doesn't Get FOSS...(or maybe they do)
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| FOSS is nothing but a bunch of Birkenstock-wearing, aging hippies
>>>| that are trying to make one last stand before retiring to a Senior
>>>| Citizen Assisted Living Center.
>>>|
>>>| "Whadda'they gonna do about it...? Pout and hold a demonstration?"
>>>|
>>>| Maybe the people in the "Windows World" simply think they can do just
>>>| about anything with a GPL'd application and then tell us to "shut up
>>>| and go away" when we bring a violation to their attention.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/298-The-Windows-World-D
>>> oesnt-Get-FOSS...or-maybe-they-do.html
>>
>>More blogger *proof* of your nutcase statements.
>>How about some real proof Roy?
>>
>>Oh, and why all the Microsoft hate spamming in a Linux group?
> That's easy. Apparently you've just arrived from outer space.
>
> Microsoft has been on the attack against Linux for months.
More like years. :-)
The first Halloween document was released August 1998.
The highly disputed IDC study ("Get The Facts") was
released in October 2002; a Cybersource update study
was released in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_the_Facts
http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/
> They would like to void the world of Linux if they could. Thus
> many Linux supporters are on the defensive against this highly
> unethical company.
>
Yep. It's a pity, admittedly.
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