That stupid f**k is complainging that commercial companies cannot sell closed source versions of software linux people wrote. And he doesn't also seem to know that a lot of free software is under the BSD license and can be modified and sold without source. The type of guy that makes me wanna puke...
From marsaro@interearth.com to Fred A. Miller and SuSE Linux List about Re:...:
Huh? Linux a Cancer....ok, maybe, think of it as a cancer that will overwhelm its victum and eventually kill it
Regards,
Jon
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Fred A. Miller wrote:
GOOD response from Joe Barr.
Fred
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Am-info] Ballmer: Linux is a cancer Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:34:00 -0500 From: Joe Barr
To: sujal@sujal.net, AM-Info List Ballmer tells three enormous and deliberate lies in his response to the question on Linux.
1. He claims open source code is not available to commerical firms.
This less than a week after the removal of a page on the MS web site touting their use of GPLd code in an experimental web server.
2. He claims that if you use open source code, you have to make all of your code open source.
Linux is literally covered with proprietary code in applications and tools. His claim is absurd. Even if you narrow it down to GPL'd code, you are free to use it in any manner you wish. ONLY if you modify it and redistribute it are you required to license the derivative work under the GPL. If you simply use it, you are not required to do anything at all.
3. He claims that Linux is a cancer and attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Same lie as above in a little more immflamatory language.
Ballmer probably pissed his pants when he heard the question, and in MS exec knee-jerk fashion rattled off the three biggest lies he could think of.
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:10:38 -0400
Sujal Shah
wrote: Interview in the Chicago Sun-Times.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html
He would be a little (tiny) bit more truthful replacing Open Source with GPL'd (the BSD license is an Open Source license and allows companies to close-source derived software). Of course, I run closed source software on my Linux boxes, and work on closed-source software at work on my workstation (also running linux). So, he's patently lying.
But that's not something new.
Sujal
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