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From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@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

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