____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 15 January 2008 12:29 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>
>> I'm sure that they have the "kill the other guy" process off to some
>> truly fine art by now. Considering that this dates back to CP/M,
>> DRDOS, stacker, and in more recent years SCO and others, they know
>> *exactly* how to go about this. They're so good at it, they even
>> managed to get a /judge/ removed from a case.
>
> Assimilation and destruction is Microsoft's core business model, so
> naturally they're good at it. However they are nonetheless starting
> to lose their grip, and ultimately they cannot beat the momentum of
> Free Software. MS are losing the Whack-A-Mole game because how does
> one attack an invisible army, especially one as ubiquitous as FOSS?
>
> There is no single company at FOSS's core, that MS can attack using
> their usual methods, so they've resorted to some desperate measures
> in a last ditch attempt to kill the "cancer". In the long term they
> will lose that battle, because they are not just fighting a handful
> of Linux geeks, or companies that they can "assimilate", or corrupt
> politicians that they can bribe. Increasingly they are fighting for
> the continued support of their own (ex)customers, an ever-expanding
> number of people who have become disenchanted with Microsoft's vile
> politics and Slopware; and a huge number of (sometimes influential)
> people who care passionately about freedom and justice in IT, media
> and communications; who desperately want to end the Microsoft reign
> of terror and corruption.
[H]omer, Ballmer said some of the above explicitly. It scares him that Linux
isn't a company he can squash (or throw a chair at).
Novell is not Linux.
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