Fwd: Linux executive accuses Microsoft

Google is your friend:
http://www.eff.org/Intellectual_property/us_v_microsoft_amici.brief
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/microsoft_pr.html

Pretty credible sources, if you ask me.

George



Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> > > Linux executive accuses Microsoft
> > >
> > > The Associated Press
> > > Posted March 25, 2002, 1:21 PM EST
> > >
> > > WASHINGTON -- A top executive of Linux
> > > operating system distributor Red Hat accused
> > > Microsoft Monday of taking ownership of open
> > > technology standards in an attempt to frustrate
> > > other companies.
> > >
> > Nothing new here, of course, just good olde M$ embrace and extend.
> >
> > "If someone thinks we're not after Lotus and after WordPerfect and after Borland, they are confused. My job is to get a fair share of the software applications market, and to me that's 100 percent."
> >

> >                 Mike Maples, Senior VP for Applications for Microsoft, Nov. 1991

> >
> > That statement still applies and not just to applications. To bring it up to date just add the words Open Source and Linux.
>
> You wouldn't happen to know the source where this quote can be found would you?
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