Actually for me the M$ execs sound more like criminals that are realizing the their case isn't going well. They can't keep their lies straight and their screaming at their attorneys to bolster the "reasonable doubt" angle or an alternate theory of the crime angle. Res Ipso Liquator - the thing speaks of itself. Each day I see more and more rhetoric from the media on both sides ot the fence. The bottom line will be A) the response to M$' new venture and their upcoming .Net/HailStorm and B) the rate of developments in Linux. AFIK the rate of development isn't slowing one bit. Put this together with the mixed response to their new product lines and service and the truth is becomming very clear - They're scared. Your absolutely right. They don't know how to stop open source. The more eroneous statements they make the more the get caught looking like they're worried and scrammbling. Like I said "Res Ipso Liquator". Just my$ 0.02 U.S. Cheers. Curtis On Friday 01 June 2001 03:40 pm, Corvin Russell wrote:
Well, Fred, I think the charitable way to look at this is that these are the squeals the pig makes before the barbecue. They don't know how to counter open source. It's one thing they can't embrace, therefore they can't extend and extinguish it. If they could embrace it, they certainly couldn't extend it, or it would never be extinguished. Well that's my optimistic argument. It's also possible that they'll try another strategy -- eviscerate, eradicate, extinguish. Microsoft has the personality of a Dalek, not that I want to reveal I ever watched Doctor Who or anything. (I was a kid.)
Corvin