Micro$oft CEO says Linux is a cancer

[bill h]

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On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:58:59  
 Numberwhun ***** wrote:
>I found this in a newsletter I received today and thougt I would share it.
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>Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to Microsoft?
>
>A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will 
>force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only 
>healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds 
>open-source work.  Government funding should be for work that is available 
>to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way 
>the license is written, if you use
>any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open 
>source.
>If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. 
>Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in 
>an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that 
>the license works.
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>***** End article *****
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>If anyone cares to read the whole article, go to:
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>http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html
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>
>I wonder if anyone told him that the NSA has released some open source 
>software?  Hhhmmmm.
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>Regards,
>
>jlk
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I think he may have stumbled apon the initiative of open-source. It never occured to him to try it....hmmm.....too bad.....


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