Ballmer: "We'll Outsmart Open Source"

An anonymous reader writes "Micorosofts Steve Ballmer is spouting off again in this ZDNet UK article. To an audience of Most Valued Professionals in London, he says 'We'll outsmart open source.' Among other things, he also says 'Linux is a serious competitor.' We've known ever since the Halloween Documents that they have been running scared, but this looks like a prelude to a whole new round of dirty tricks. It also looks like damage control for the statements of Microsoft's Sr. VP Brian Valentines last week."

Comments

I'm waiting for Steve

[teamhasnoi]

to outsmart perspiration.

Re:I'm waiting for Steve

[unicron]

Mark my words: Maybe not this Comdex, maybe not the one after that, but sometime within the next 5 years you will get to see that man have a corinary they will talk about in medical schools for the next century.

I can outsmart you in four words

[BurritoWarrior]

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

And this from a man...

[Noryungi]

That can be seen running around, screaming: "Give it to meeeeeeeeeee!!" in an MPEG file that has been mirrored all over the world... =)

Who can take anything Ballmer says seriously after seeing this movie clip? Certainly not Linus Torvalds, that's for sure!!

Re:And this from a man...

[zulux]

for (x=1;x>=1,000,000;x++){
print "DEVELOPERS";
}

Hey! This is Microsoft we're talking about:

10 PRINT "DEVELOPERS"
20 GOTO 10

and for the L33t Microsoft developer:

10 ? "DEVELOPERS":RUN

[clippy]
Hey, It looks like your trying to be sarcastic

Re:Ballmer

[rmadmin]

Na, not that way, they are going to do it the Valentine way. "I'm not proud," Valentine said, as he spoke to a crowd of developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."

Translation: We'll outsmart them by making them think our product sucks, then we'll surprise them with... oh wait, our product does suck.

Re:Hmm.

[cscx]

And it's not even noon!

What are they posting next hour?

"Bill Gates mixes whites and darks in washing machine -- turns socks blue!"

Meep Meep

[signe]

Yep... we'll outsmart Open Source.

You see, we're going to order this rocket sled from Acme...

-Todd

Security through obscurity

[jcsehak]

from the article: While Ballmer stopped short of advocating Microsoft's old "security through obscurity" policy, he pointed out that publicly posting bug fixes often prompted attacks. "The hacker waits till a fix is posted, then writes an attack and sends it out," he said. Such attacks are based on information in the fix.

In related news, I've noticed that the more dishes I clean, there more there are to get dirty, so if I don't do the dishes, then there won't be any clean ones to get dirty, and I'll be saved a lot of work.

I smell Iocane powder

[Ilan Volow]

We've bested Steve's Ballmer's spaniard and we've beaten his giant. Like we didn't see a battle of wits coming....

Compare and Contrast

Better comparison...

[PrimeNumber]

Compare and Contrast

See what I mean? :)

He doesn't need to

[K-Man]

Invention is 99% perspiration. He delegates the inspiration to others.