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Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:21:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> 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.''
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 that people want to buy it.
(conceptually simple concept, probably hard for MS to do. They can make
bigger, but better?? :-) )
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> Or, from
> <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2682588,00.html>
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> "It's the business model around free software that concerns us, where people
> get sucked in to not paying for software."
Perish the thought of those POOR PEOPLE having to NOT PAY for software. Oh,
the humanity! Gotta love it.
I'd give him a lot more cred if he could dig up examples of where opensource
has actually caused people trouble (where they couldn't get support or
something like that). Of course that's a lot harder to come up with than FUD.
++Lar
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| (...) I think that the point that they are inarticulately trying to make is: "The system of proprietary intellectual property rights provides an incentive to put money into research. The principles of openness and sharing demonstrated in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-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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