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Joe Dunning wrote:

>
> I have not seen any real [patent related] activities by Microsoft. A
lot of
> sabre rattling, but so far, not much more.
>

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.

--
Tony Lawrence

"Tony Lawrence" <pcunix@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| 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

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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