On dealing with Microsoft

On dealing with Microsoft

Posted Jun 24, 2004 21:17 UTC (Thu) by Lorenzo (guest, #260)
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I recall some politician say that the opposing candidate was not his enemy, but his opponent. Some say that Microsoft is the competition. I beg to disagree. Microsoft is the enemy. Nothing more and nothing less.

Looking at Microsoft's behavior shows them time and again to use "dirty tricks", unfair competition, and are, in the eyes of the law, a convicted felon.

Because of that, open sourcers had best look at Microsoft as a sworn enemy. We had best think of ways to comepletely destroy it. To imprison their officers and directors, impoverish their stockholders, and make public every line of their proprietary source. And to do as they are attempting to do to us: we should work to make the closed source business model illegal. Nothing less than total destruction of the Evil Empire will do.

If you think I'm fooling, you got me wrong. If you think I'm nuts, you might be right. But, that's the way I see it.

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