From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 21 10:26:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA6F37B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 10:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19055; Mon, 21 May 2001 11:24:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010521111319.044642c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:17:48 -0600 To: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: war of disinformation (GPL) In-Reply-To: <20010521113323.B74026@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:33 AM 5/21/2001, j mckitrick wrote: >a friend of mine sent me an article that is linux-centered but still has >some interesting implications. > >http://www.consultingtimes.com/ms_infowar.html > >the gist of the article here is that the attack on open source is to attack >IBM, and linux just happens to be in the way. That's foolish. IBM's Linux strategy is an infinitesimal portion of its business. What I suspect that Microsoft is really trying to do is fire up the Linux fanatics. You see, the GPL is actually *GOOD* for Microsoft, because it destroys Microsoft's competition but not Microsoft itself. Microsoft obviously can't collude with the FSF; not only would this bring the threat of additional antitrust action but the FSF would never cooperate. So, how to make sure that the GPL camp stays motivated and goes out to make war on Microsoft's competition? Inflame them with speeches and articles like Mundie's. Brilliant strategy. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message