Interesting MS Comments

[George Toft]

Perhaps Linux is favored by politicians afterall?

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said yesterday that he and a coalition of
17 other states and the District of Columbia that have sued Microsoft for
other antitrust violations plan to look into the Corel investment as well.
"We're particularly concerned about any adverse effect on Linux," Miller
said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5576-2001Feb14.html

George



Jeffrey Pyne writes:

> I saw a link to this article on another list and found it amusing:
> 
> http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=marketsquote99_news.ht&s=AOospdBaQTWl
> jcm9z
> 
> (If it hasn't already been posted to Slashdot, I'm sure it will soon.)
> 
> A couple excerpts:
> 
> "Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that
> freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation
> and that legislators need to understand the threat."
> 
>   -and-
> 
> "I'm an American, I believe in the American Way," he said. "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."
> 
> Well heck afire!  I didn't realize that Linux was UNAMERICAN.  I am
> unsubscribing from this list immediately, and when I get home I am going to
> blow away my Slackware 7.1 installation (evil, evil!) and install Windows
> 2000.  (To do so I'll just need to stop by Fry's on the way home to pick up
> and extra 256Mb of RAM-- good thing it's on sale for $44.95.)  I'm just glad
> Mr. Allchin warned us all before it was too late....
> 
> :)
> 
> ~Jeff
> 
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