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____/ Homer on Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 00:49 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno spake thusly:
>> On Oct 1, 4:09 pm, Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Ballmer obviously knows something that his army of shills don't, or
>>> at least something they don't want to talk about.
>>
>> I'm not sure it's quite as rational as that. Linux may be visceral
>> for Ballmer in a way that Apple is not.
>
> Yes, I can see that now. Ballmer's comments are reminiscent of the type
> of paranoid behaviour exhibited during the Cold War.
>
> Apple fights a conventional war against Microsoft, who are entirely
> unconcerned, because Microsoft has superior weaponry (money derived
> through "IP" and racketeering).
>
> "Linux" fights a highly /unconventional/ war against Microsoft, one that
> undermines the effectiveness of those same weapons. You can't compete
> against "free" (cost), and you can't run protection rackets based on
> Free Software (license).
>
> It's easy to see why Ballmer, and Microsoft as a whole, is so obsessed
> with "Linux".
Since like... forever.
"I'd put the Linux phenomenon really as threat No. 1."
--Steve Ballmer, 2001
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