Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Tom Nielsen <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 9:30 am, LRivas@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ballmer and Taylor are really sick, and have none knowledge about the open
> source or linux philosophy, seeing linux as a rival who is trying to beat
> them... poor guys

With all due respect, I think it's quite the opposite. I think they know very, 
very well about opensource and the Linux philosophy....and that's why they 
speak so very badly about it...they know this is the only thing in the world 
right now that can have an impact on their revenue. Guys in their positions 
NEED to know everything they can about their competition so that they can 
"crush" it. It's all just negative marketing....an attempt to get the 
fence-sitters from jumping over to Linux. If I didn't know that much about 
Linux (and I really don't) and my job depended on hundreds of people working 
as efficiently as possible, I would surely go with MS. If, or when, something 
goes fubar, I can always tell my CIO "hey, it's Microsoft...what else can I 
do?" These statements and stories are enough to get someone to stay where 
they are.

-- 
Tom Nielsen
Neuro Logic Systems, Inc.
1.805.389.5435 x18
www.neuro-logic.com