Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ A Gnu World Order on Thursday 13 March 2008 05:33 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message news:6053452.CF9p0P6b6j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>> The unholy quad: Miguel, Mono, Moonlight and Microsoft
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Nevertheless, this Usenet conversation has some points of interest. It
>>> | illustrates again the way in which de Icaza, who by all accounts is a man
>>> | with a very high IQ, refuses to look down the line and draw reasonable
>>> | conclusions.
>>> |
>>> | When asked "To what degree do you trust Microsoft, either in terms of
>>> | their promises; their motivations; or their commitment to a competing
>>> | platform like Linux?" he chooses to trivialise the question by responding
>>> | "This is a question that is suitable for Teen magazine or Cosmo."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17069/1090/1/0/
>>
>>
>> Nice to see the iTWire news article providing Google Groups links to the
>> actual c.o.l.a thread containing [H]omer's direct challenges to Miguelito,
>> including the link on page 3 under the phrase "One more item of interest".
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17069/1090/1/2/
>> http://tinyurl.com/2ra448
>>
>> Well done. (Love to see [H]omer dissect Mafia$oft's "MollyC" shill, too.)
>>
>> http://www.newmobilecomputing.com/thread?304747
>> http://www.osnews.com/thread?304747
>> http://news.google.com/news?num=100&scoring=d&q=comp.os.linux.advocacy
>
> [H]omer will probably publish an article soon. The whole Mono story is getting
> exposed, regardless or whether Miguel tells it or not.
>
> The OSNews discussion shows you that more people start to understand just
> what's going on. Miguel joins the discussion with ad hominem attacks, as
> usual. Jeff Waugh joins him.
>
Btw - my remark regarding the Novell T&Cs essentially reducing the
licensing conditions to those of BSD was also reproduced there, but I'm
sure you all noticed :-)
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