[opensuse] Linux patent suit: In search of the Microsoft smoking gun
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Fred A. Miller escribió:
Will be nice if you stop sending offtopic FUD to this list, use opensuse-offtopic for that. Thanks for you attention. -- "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury Cristian Rodríguez R, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/13/07, Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@suse.de> wrote:
Fred A. Miller escribió:
Its impressive how some few people that use linux have such obsessive, compulsive, insane behavior on talking about microsoft, posting news about microsoft, creating theories about microsoft, repeating ad-nauseam that microsoft is bad, and other bla bla bla etc, etc, etc. They talk more about microsoft than their own marketing team. One would have thought that at this point of the game, people would know how the game works, and give a little less of media space, and not inflate the fear on new adopters, and not spread the panic for companies that are considering adopting linux. But no, you guys have to keep that shit alive... And then Im pretty sure somebody will reply to this email criticizing me in a super hero or middle ages knights hero tone, in a naive and disconnected from reality way, and talk about the war of the free software, and gnu, and that microsoft people eats babies bla bla bla. You guys should leave the lawsuits to the lawyers. regards Marcio --- druid -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Druid wrote:
On 10/13/07, Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@suse.de> wrote:
Fred A. Miller escribió:
Its impressive how some few people that use linux have such obsessive, compulsive, insane behavior on talking about microsoft, posting news about microsoft, creating theories about microsoft, repeating ad-nauseam that microsoft is bad, and other bla bla bla etc, etc, etc. They talk more about microsoft than their own marketing team.
So according to you, when Ballmer issues patent threats against Red Hat based on an unverified and unsubstantiated report taken badly out of context we should be talking about the weather? While I will acknowledge that there are some zealots out there, not talking about Microsoft, particularly when it does such things as attempt to pack national standards boards and lobby administrations to free itself from onerous anti-trust decisions is kind of like ignoring the 500 pound elephant in the room. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:34:24 -0600, John Meyer wrote:
So according to you, when Ballmer issues patent threats against Red Hat based on an unverified and unsubstantiated report taken badly out of context we should be talking about the weather?
No, but you should talk ON A DIFFERENT LIST! opensuse-offtopic is the correct list for such stuff. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:08 -0300, Druid wrote:
On 10/13/07, Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@suse.de> wrote:
Fred A. Miller escribió:
Its impressive how some few people that use linux have such obsessive, compulsive, insane behavior on talking about microsoft, posting news about microsoft, creating theories about microsoft, repeating ad-nauseam that microsoft is bad, and other bla bla bla etc, etc, etc. They talk more about microsoft than their own marketing team.
One would have thought that at this point of the game, people would know how the game works, and give a little less of media space, and not inflate the fear on new adopters, and not spread the panic for companies that are considering adopting linux.
But no, you guys have to keep that shit alive... And then Im pretty sure somebody will reply to this email criticizing me in a super hero or middle ages knights hero tone, in a naive and disconnected from reality way, and talk about the war of the free software, and gnu, and that microsoft people eats babies bla bla bla.
You guys should leave the lawsuits to the lawyers.
I agree fully. Steve is an actor. His role in the MS play is to scare current MS users that they risk lawsuit if they leave for Linux. All bark. No bite. Why do we who have already left MS (maybe were never there - I am proudly in that camp) worry about an actor at a theater at which we no longer have seats? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
take this to the alt. ng's On 10/13/07, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:08 -0300, Druid wrote:
On 10/13/07, Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@suse.de> wrote:
Fred A. Miller escribió:
Its impressive how some few people that use linux have such obsessive, compulsive, insane behavior on talking about microsoft, posting news about microsoft, creating theories about microsoft, repeating ad-nauseam that microsoft is bad, and other bla bla bla etc, etc, etc. They talk more about microsoft than their own marketing team.
One would have thought that at this point of the game, people would know how the game works, and give a little less of media space, and not inflate the fear on new adopters, and not spread the panic for companies that are considering adopting linux.
But no, you guys have to keep that shit alive... And then Im pretty sure somebody will reply to this email criticizing me in a super hero or middle ages knights hero tone, in a naive and disconnected from reality way, and talk about the war of the free software, and gnu, and that microsoft people eats babies bla bla bla.
You guys should leave the lawsuits to the lawyers.
I agree fully. Steve is an actor. His role in the MS play is to scare current MS users that they risk lawsuit if they leave for Linux. All bark. No bite. Why do we who have already left MS (maybe were never there - I am proudly in that camp) worry about an actor at a theater at which we no longer have seats?
-- Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23
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Druid wrote:
On 10/13/07, Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@suse.de> wrote:
Fred A. Miller escribió:
Its impressive how some few people that use linux have such obsessive, compulsive, insane behavior on talking about microsoft, posting news about microsoft, creating theories about microsoft, repeating ad-nauseam that microsoft is bad, and other bla bla bla etc, etc, etc. They talk more about microsoft than their own marketing team.
While there may or may not be an MS connection in this suit, there was one with SCO. Also, take a look at what happened with OOXML & ISO or the EU recently and many, many other examples over the years, as to why some of us are so openly anti-MS. MS has repeately "competed" in a criminal manner and yet so many people are oblivious to this fact and seem to thing MS is the most wonderful thing to hit the computer industry, despite all the harm they've caused. MS has the computer industry by the throat and they must be resisted in any legal way possible! As an example of how they've got their tentacles wrapped around many people, yesterday, I attended the Ontario Linux Fest in Toronto. One of the presentations was about how someone was arranging computers for very low income high school students. They would take donated computers and install Ubuntu, including OpenOffice on them. One of the things they have to do is change the default file formats in OpenOffice to those of MS Office. She tried to get some teachers to use OpenOffice and found they weren't allowed to have any software that competed with MS on the computers, due to the contract the school board has with Microsoft. This is despite the fact, that the Province of Ontario arranged a province wide license for StarOffice, for all tax funded schools. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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