Fred Ramsing wrote:
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Ryan Finnie wrote:The whole "Government Security Program" is a laugh though... they're scared because of the penetration of linux in government, and are adopting a "sure, they give away souce and are free, but we'll let you look at some of our source and we're a big company, so we're better!" stance.
That's not the half of it. Micro$haft is warning all investors that if open source software succeed, tech revenues and stocks will plummet starting with Micro$haft. Therefore, according to their warning (or threat), it is in the best interests of investors to stick with proprietary, platform-dependent, and backwards technology. Kind of like saying that if you owned stock in typewriter companies in the 1970's and 1980's that you shouldn't have purchased PC's when they came out. Given their share as a Fortune500, I consider Micro$haft's statement to be a deliberate threat. My $0.02. Fred _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
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