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Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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Date: 
Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:13:47 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm^antispam^.org
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Erik Olson <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote:
''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.''

Or, from
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2682588,00.html>

"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



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  Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
 
(...) Well, this part IS true, as far as it goes. That's the idea, after all!!! If you read the GNU Manifesto, it comes through loud and clear. MS has a simple answer to it though, make stuff that's so much *better* than what you can get for free (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
 
Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation (URL)''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' [Microsoft's] Allchin said. ''I can't imagine (...) .... (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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