Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Open Source vs. Proprietary - Who Are The Real Zealots?
A zealot, fanatic, or bigot is "a person who is utterly intolerant of
any differing creed, belief, or opinion."
Like this?:
[quote]
Microsoft boss Bill Gates bans his children from using Apple products...
but his wife admits she'd like an iPhone
Microsoft founder head Bill Gates has banned the use of products made by
arch-rival Apple from his house, his wife has revealed.
But the blockade could backfire on Gates, 53, after Melinda admitted
there are times she feels envious of her friends' iPhones.
She told Vogue magazine that the couple's three children Jennifer, 13,
Rory, 10 and Phoebe, seven, are not allowed Apple products.
[/quote]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1158905/Microsoft-boss-Bill-Gates-bans-children-using-Apple-products--wife-admits-shed-like-iPhone.html
[quote]
Microsoft lambasted for 'iPod Amnesty Bin'
Microsoft is receving some unusual attention for a decoration in its
corporate offices. A user of Flickr recently uploaded a photo of the
company's "iPod Amnesty Bin," found in the Zune headquarters, apparently
encouraging employees to abandon Apple's media player in favor of
Microsoft's competitor. The bin has drawn the ire of voices such as
Macworld UK, which suggests that it is emblematic of "child-like and
unrealistic behavior,"
[/quote]
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/05/24/microsoft.ipod.amnesty.bin/
[quote]
Ballmer: “Linux is a cancer”
Contaminates all other software with Hippie GPL rubbish
Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said
that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property
sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading
as a media interview with the Chicago Sun-Times Friday.
Ballmer was trying to articulate his concern, whether real or imagined,
that limited recourse to the GNU GPL requires that all software be made
open source.
"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software,
you have to make the rest of your software open source," Ballmer
explained to an excessively credulous, un-named Sun-Times reporter who,
predictably, neglected to question this bold assertion.
[/quote]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/
[quote]
Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with mental
deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and
OS/2." Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups,
whatever. Make the complete failure of the competition's technology part
of the mythology of the computer industry. We want to place selection
pressure on those companies and individuals that show a genetic weakness
for competitors' technologies, to make the industry increasingly
resistant to such unhealthy strains, over time.
[/quote]
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
("Evangelism is WAR!", by James James Plamondon, Microsoft's erstwhile
Chief Technology Evangelist.)
[quote]
Fuck you, Richard Stallman and other GNU/Trolls
Published by admin on June 28, 2009 in Uncategorized
This is a response to Richard Stallman’s article
http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono
Disclosure: This rant doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that I
intern at *Microsoft* and that I am writing an extension to the
*MonoDevelop* project. It is a rant to express my core belief that
freedom is open to interpretation. I believe viral copyleft licenses
like *GPL are evil*
[/quote]
http://anirudhsanjeev.org/fuck-you-richard-stallman-and-other-gnutrolls
By Anirudh Sanjeev, Microsoft Internee.
[/quote]
Note: The original article was deleted by the author. A backup copy can
be found here, along with an analysis:
http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/02/strange-bedfellows/
[quote]
Identifying Yourself As A Lesbian Gets You Banned On XBOX Live
Teresa says that she was harassed by other players and later suspended
from XBOX Live because she identified herself as a lesbian in her
profile. When she appealed to Microsoft, she says they told her that
other gamers found her sexual orientation "offensive."
Teresa says:
I just recently saw a thing on your site about someones gamer tag
being banned because it had the word gay in the tag.
I had a similar incident, only my account was suspended because I
had said in my profile that I was a lesbian. I was harassed by several
players, 'chased' to different maps/games to get away from their
harassment. They followed me into the games and told all the other
players to turn me in because they didn't want to see that crap or their
kids to see that crap.
...
Microsoft does nothing to stop this or prevent it, but instead sides
with the homophobes. No one will help me get the word out about
Microsoft's anti-gay policy. Not even the HRC who says Microsoft has a
positive image with them. Not to me it doesn't!
[/quote]
http://consumerist.com/5160187/identifying-yourself-as-a-lesbian-gets-you-banned-on-xbox-live
[quote]
Weekly news wrapup: Microsoft claims Linux is un-American
Everyone's favorite monopolists -- we're talking about Microsoft here --
had one of those kind of weeks that makes fans like us realize why they
get themselves in trouble with the U.S. Department of Justice every once
in awhile.
This week, Microsoft's Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, was
was quoted as claiming Linux stifles innovation. "I'm an American, I
believe in the American Way," he told Bloomberg, implying that Linux is
un-American. "I worry if the government encourages open source, and I
don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand
the threat."
Those damned communist Open Source hackers! Let's have congressional
hearings or something.
[/quote]
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/8374
Microsoft is institutionally bigoted against ... anything not Microsoft.
It's a cult of power and greed.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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