On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:18:19 +0000, Neil Morrison wrote:

>
> "Tony Lawrence" <pcunix@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:chifdu$35i@odbk17.prod.google.com...
>
> | Microsoft will have to pick both the patent and its target very
> | carefully. They can't afford to screw up and lose - the negative PR
> | would be intense.
> |
> | Maybe they have something they think they can win with, and maybe they
> | don't. I think it's pretty plain that they will use any weapon they
> | think will be successful.
> |
> | I think you have to think of a lioness stalking prey. She's going to
> | watch for the right animal in the right place at the right time. Just
> | because she's not looking at you right now doesn't mean you aren't a
> | possible choice for dinner.
>
> During a commercial spot masquerading as a media interview with the Chicago
> Sun-Times on June 1, 2001, Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft says, "Linux is a
> cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything
> it touches."
>
> Steve Ballmer at Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting in Seattle,
> on July 31, 2000
> "There's no company called Linux, there's barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux
> sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had, you know, the
> characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it.
> That is, it's free."
>
> http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~selmys/quotes.html
>
> N

I guess freedom *is* communism to a monopolist. After all, they lose
control when there is open cooperation that does not drive a wedge between
people in order to exploit them and take their money for personal gain.

Using Ballmer's "logic" there must be a lot of communists who fought for
this country's freedom over the centuries. Who else supports freedom,
other than communists (following his statements to the absurd lengths he
goes to, seeking a false conclusion)? I suppose that the Constitution is a
cancer because it too, is free (as in freedom).

Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but so few call bullsquash on the MS
execs. A lot of others merely suck up to them, hoping to take some crumbs
from the food that drops on the floor. That's no life for any
self-respecting human being.

To each their own, but I shall choose my own path.

Have a nice day.

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