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Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:23:12 GMT
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Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation
http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html
> ''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' [Microsoft's] Allchin said. ''I can't imagine
> something that could be worse than this for the software business and the
> intellectual-property business.''
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> Allchin said he's concerned that the open-source business model could stifle initiative
> in the computer industry.
> ''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.''
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| Erik: (...) said. ''I can't imagine (...) Considering that the Open Source community probably are some of the best "educated" people when it comes to intellectual property rights, that is quite a joke. On the other hand. Laywers is probably also (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Oh my! I can believe he said that. Anything to secure his companies dollars. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:G8y7Io.EDE@lugnet.com... (...) Allchin said. ''I can't imagine (...) stifle initiative (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Or, from (URL) "It's the business model around free software that concerns us, where people get sucked in to not paying for software." --Doug Miller, group product manager for the Windows Server Group (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) get your PhD from Georgia Tech and be this boneheaded (Or maybe you can, I am biased...). His arguments don't make sense in the context that this article is presented. On the other hand, it would be really easy to understand his arguments if (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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