Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

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What I'm saying is, in the context of all the doom and glooming that's
been going on on this list, there is a place between kissing Microsoft's
rear and holding annual Bill burning parties on our front lawn.

J Sloan wrote:

John Meyer wrote:
Maybe he can ask SCO how far that argument went.

Look, I'm not saying that everybody in the Microsoft office isn't Satan
Spawn, but Microsoft is more than Gates and Ballmer

OK, I'm with you so far...

and to imagine that
we can make a large impact in the computer world without them is absurd.

?

Now that is a complete non-sequitur. I have no response to that, other
than to say that I'm astounded by the absurdity of the notion that
unix/linux needs microsoft's blessing in order to succeed in dislodging
microsoft from their comfortable near-monopoly position.

Joe

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