It's amazing how hypocritical Ballmer is. But this goes to show that MS will do anything to maintain their monopoly.
----- Original Message ---- From: Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:05:03 AM Subject: Re: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents On Mon May 14 0:52 , Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:14:14PM -0700: >> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6183437.html >> >> :-( > > "What's fair is fair," Ballmer told Fortune. "We live in a world where > we honor, and support the honoring of, intellectual property." That statement is selectively subjective. Of course "We (M$) live in a world where we (M$) honor, and support the honoring of, [our] intellectual property[, but not the property of SpinRite, etc., etc.]." I doubt that they have any reservations about /borrowing/ code from open source whenever it suits them. Who would know? Theirs is all closed. ---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
