Interesting MS Comments

[Deepak Saxena]

It shows how clueless and scared Microsoft is about open source at the
moment.

~Deepak

On Feb 16 2001, at 09:12, Lucas Vogel was caught saying:
> Not only was this posted on Slashdot yesterday, but it had over 1300 or so
> comments posted to it. 
> 
> It's a good insight to the views some of the MS executives have on open
> source, but I really don't think it has any teeth - even if MS does.
> 
> IMHO,
> 
> Lucas
> 
> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey Pyne [mailto:jpyne@worldatwork.org]
> > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 10:03 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Interesting MS Comments
> > 
> > 
> > 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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