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To: Dimensio
I very much question Scott's technical expertise and I'd take any commentary he has to offer on subjects even remotely related to issues like this with a grain of salt.

he's just writing outrage articles to drive traffic to his site. the fact that he posts the articles on fr, not interested readers, says something about their merit, don't you think?

36 posted on 06/05/2002 1:02:34 PM PDT by danelectro
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> Prove that Microsoft hasn't licensed or paid for every technology their software engineers used in the creating of their software (or as you've said "stolen"). When I mean proof, I mean PROOF, kids - not "X-Files" conspiracy theories of alleged backdoor deals you found on "www.SupaLinuxHizzouse.org". If your proof is a civil lawsuit settlement, I'll show you proof that IBM, HP, et al. "stole" just as much tech over the years.

> Linux is already begining to diverge into two separate kernel forks - Torvalds' and Cox's. I thought ESR claimed such forking was bad and would never happen?

> It's easy for to blame Microsoft for anything because they are a public company, but what happens in the Open Souce Happy-FunLand future when a cyber terrorist organization opens a back door embedded deep within the Linux code and selectively takes down every server in America? Don't give me a "but that would never happen" response - who do you BLAME? The hacker or Linus?

If the answer is the hacker, why not blame the hacker when a "Microsoft bug" is found and exploited?

If the answer is to never blame Linus because he doesn't "own" Linux, I think you find the answer to why Linux has no marketshare. No, I'm not throwing out that for shock value - that's the fact originally stated by Ed Zander from Sun Microsystems: "yet Linux has achieved no market share in the industry."

Nader wants Microsoft along with the secondary and tertiary hardware/software industries that have been created around them destroyed by government intervention. Nader's got it wrong - If Linux is better, let the Linux companies turn on the marketing charm and convince customers to pay for it... That's the bottom line.

41 posted on 06/05/2002 1:48:29 PM PDT by Scott McCollum
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