On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:56:10 am George Stoianov wrote:

"... Ballmer was also bullish over winning large corporate accounts against Linux vendors ..."

The keyword is "bullish" that is just him, I do not think he is good for MS and even less so for OSS and Linux. The guy seems a lot like a loose cannon to me.

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On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:07, Fergus Wilde wrote:

Ballmer is a sad little man Actually, Ballmer is a rather large (say Chubby & Tall) obnoxious dangerous man with a very big mouth... he is posturing (say squirming) because Fixta isn't selling while Linux is gaining significant market position daily. What do you expect him to do? He's a blow-hard... or should I say FUD-hard... who can continue to control the world if he can continue to make the world believe his lies.

This is my favorite quote from the day: "But I don't want to eliminate in your minds the notions of risk of pricing that comes from competition with open source. We are higher priced, but we bring greater value," Ballmer added. Honestly, why doesn't he just gag everyone with a spoon...? -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:07, Fergus Wilde wrote:

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Ballmer is a sad little man

BINAL (Ballmer Is Not A Lawyer) And not much else either. He is a train wreck/car wreck.. It's the only reason he still gets reporters and camera folks out to see his

On Wed February 21 2007 2:50 pm, Jeffrey Taylor scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: pronouncements. They are there on the hope he will self destruct or do something fantastically silly ( film at 11 sort of stuff. for slow newsdays ). -- j -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:47:36 pm Mathias Homann wrote:

Am Mittwoch 21 Februar 2007 schrieb jfweber@gilweber.com:

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On Wed February 21 2007 2:50 pm, Jeffrey Taylor scratched these words

onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:

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Quoting M Harris :

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On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:07, Fergus Wilde wrote:

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Ballmer is a sad little man

BINAL (Ballmer Is Not A Lawyer)

And not much else either. He is a train wreck/car wreck.. It's the only reason he still gets reporters and camera folks out to see his pronouncements. They are there on the hope he will self destruct or do something fantastically silly ( film at 11 sort of stuff. for slow newsdays ).

you mean,something like running up and down a stage like a monkey on speed, yelling "developers! developers! developers!" all the time?

makes me wonder why certain elements of the press still take that lunatic serious.

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On 2/22/07, George Stoianov wrote:

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you mean,something like running up and down a stage like a monkey on speed, yelling "developers! developers! developers!" all the time?

I saw that after the interview with Novell on the agreement, at which I thought he made some remarks/comments that are not quite suitable for a man running such a large .... who I am kidding he sounded like a cowboy herding 2 cows cause none would give him more. Than I read another thing and watched that video ... and that was insane I mean have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4MzqBFxZE ....

and again ..................

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