On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Simpson, Doug wrote: > Thank you for pointing this out. > Have you sent Biz week your editorial? > Here you're just preaching to the choir. > Doug
what i was trying to do was point out that, despite the numerous positives in the businessweek article, there were enough glaring errors and misrepresentations to pretty much cancel them out. in short, linux fans should be very wary of recommending those articles. the articles are replete with subtle digs and ad hominem attacks. OSS programmers are described as a "ragtag band", richard stallman with his "flower-child hair" "plays the role of karl marx" -- *that* should be enough to put the fear of communism in any serious capitalist. and then there's MS's craig mundie, still attacking linux as somehow a destroyer of intellectual property with, "It ultimately is a question about whether societies are going to value intellectual property or not." to which the author, unbelievably, writes, "He has a point." no, he doesn't, you dipstick. and it's pretty hard to take seriously any complaints from the rep of a company that's stolen as much IP as microsoft has over the years. and the conclusion: "It's a weird twist on capitalism. But it just might work." it's *already* working, but why waste one more chance to sneak in the anti-capitalism dig? like i said, in the midst of lots of positive stuff, enough mind-numbingly stupid claims to make the whole thing pretty worthless. just more MS FUD. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
