Fwd: Linux executive accuses Microsoft

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:16:22AM -0700, technomage wrote:
> uh, this is definitely a MUST READ!!!!
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> Just saw this in the Orlando Sentinel headlines...
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> Linux executive accuses Microsoft
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> The Associated Press
> Posted March 25, 2002, 1:21 PM EST
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> 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.
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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.

Dennis Kibbe