Fred's post also show that maybe the mass media is finally starting to pay attention as well - let's hope so On Thursday 07 June 2001 10:10 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6210768.html?tag=prntfr
On Thursday 07 June 2001 06:10 pm, Julien Biezemans wrote:
On Thursday 07 June 2001 22:18, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Fred A. Miller (fm@cupserv.org) [010607 12:45]: ->"In the last three months, Jim Allchin and Craig Mundie and Steve ->Ballmer have launched a classic Big Lie campaign against open source. ->They have described it as "un-American", "a destroyer", and "a cancer". ->They have deliberately confused the GPL with non-infectious open-source ->licenses, and they have deliberately confused active combination of ->code with passive aggregation of data. They have lied, and lied, and ->lied again." -> ->http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/articles/conversations/0 02 9.html
Fred..Fred..oh master of the article... :)
Have you found any of these responses on NON-Linux specific sites?
It seems to me when the leaders of the open source community respond .. they do so in Linux forums...and When Microsoft makes these statements..it's to mainstream media. Wouldn't it be better to respond in the statements in the forum that they occurred in? It's like preaching to the converted. And all the public sees are those bonehead comments from the Microsoft side.
Just something to make ya go..hmmmm.
Yep I agree with you Ben, that's one of the problem of the open source community. The public is not really touched by its involvement because it doesn't spread into "global" media.
Would we hack CNN.COM to do so? :))
Ju.