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____/ JEDIDIAH on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 17:19 : \____
> On 2009-11-29, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> ____/ chrisv on Saturday 28 Nov 2009 19:04 : \____
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>>> JEDIDIAH wrote:
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>>>> Timmy wrote:
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>>>>> Roy has written several articles complaining about how Microsoft and
>>>>> Novell got GIMP "removed" from Ubuntu. What exactly do you think is
>>>>
>>>> He did no such thing.
>>
>> I did not.
>
> ...if I got it right, I believe that you posted it was to Microsoft's
> advantage and you mentioned that there was a guy from Micorsoft involved
> in the process. He was a product of employee churn.
He worked with the Visual Studio people for a long while (IIRC), so I assume he
still prefers .NET for some things. He wrote about F-Spot (Mono) as reason
to drop GIMP when the idea first came up in the Wiki.
> However, there was no "grand conspiracy theory" claimed.
"Conspiracy theory" is one of those terms used to describe ideas people dislike.
> There was also a nice graph that seemed to be trying to demonstrate the
> point that perpetuating mono would help Microsoft accumulate more control
> over programming interfaces including those used by Free Software and Linux.
Or take it from the source, Microsoft's own evangelism document (now leaked):
"Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory;
every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat."
--James Plamondon, Microsoft Technical Evangelist. From
Exhibit 3096; Comes v. Microsoft litigation
>>>> [deletia]
>>>>
>>>> You are grossly misrepresenting Roy's rants based on the assumption
>>>> that none of us will actually go seek them out and read them for
>>>> ourselves.
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~~ Best of wishes
Unix *is* user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.
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