Open Season on Open Source?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:06:00 UTC
John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> wrote:

> Well, there have already been a few business-media  comments  to  the
> effect  that  "No  publicity  is  bad  publicity",  and that a lot of
> business people are already reacting very differently. The suggestion
> is  that  an alternate reaction, especially from upper management, is
> "If all those companies are trying so hard to squash linux,  it  must
> be really good. Nobody would waste company resources on such a battle
> without good reason, and the reason has to be that they can't compete
> on quality or capability."
Initially I felt that it would be a tremendous PR problem for the Linux
community, but this appears actually to be helping Linux. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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