Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:18:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Joachim_Str=F6m?=bergson <watchman@ludd.luth.se> Cc: Donn Miller <hackr_d@yahoo.com>, Kenneth Mays <kmays2000@hotmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD Message-ID: <993237486.3b3399ee48e5b@webmail.neomedia.it>
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[ redirected to -chat, since it begins to be WOT ] > The GPL is just a detail MS can aim for in their FUD attacks. The > business folks buying MS products are managers that (my generalisation) > are technically clueless, but somewhat better dealing with numbers, > dollars Euros and so on. If they weren't, they wouldn't buy :-) > These kinds of people react badly to words like "communism", "cancer" > and other fearful words that sounds bad for business. If MS can connect > (in the minds of the customers) Linux and FSF with such words and > phrases, Linux will have a much harder sale. > MS are always trying to establish these kinds of words, phrases and > associations. "Freedom to innovate", anyone? <half serious> Rather than attack "communism", "cancer", etc., M$ actually turn out to attack the methods of [open] scientific research itself (!). M$'s ahem "commercial" approach to software development (FUD, marketing, deadlines...) seems NOT to have much to do with the aforementioned methods, albeit their highly skilled [?] programmers are supposed to (or should) be applying software engineering methods. If there were a way to connect (in the minds of the customers) M$'s FUD with **this** idea (ie the attack on scientific[-like] research methods), M$ would have a much harder sale... N.B. in this connection, it is also important to note that M$'s behavio(u)r is indeed [the] most anti-american in that, inter alia (DOJ docet), it is against innovation. </half serious> Just my 2 picoEuro. -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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