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Torvalds on Linux and Microsoft
Sniper223 writes with a link to an interview on the Network World site with Linus Torvalds. Linus goes through the usual spiel about stuff like why he released the Linux OS in the first place, and how the future is open source. He also has some interesting commentary on the Microsoft/Novell deal: "I actually thought that whole discussion was interesting, not because of any Novell versus MS issues at all, but because all the people talking about them so clearly showed their own biases. The actual partnership itself seemed pretty much a nonissue to me, and not nearly as interesting as the reaction it got from people, and how it was reported ... I don't actually personally think the Novell-MS agreement kind of thing matters all that much in the end, but it's interesting to see the signs that the sides are at least talking to each other. I don't know what the end result will be, but I think it would be healthier for everybody if there wasn't the kind of rabid hatred on both sides. Some people get a bit too excited about MS, I think. I don't think they are that interesting." An interesting contrast to our earlier conversation.
...which is just not helpful.
Let's see them for what they are: Organised crime. One day justice will be done, Microsoft will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
you had me at #!
Is that you RMS? still pissed off some student stole your thunder?
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
I would disagree. M$ is and always has been basically a criminal organization. They started out selling something that they did not have to IBM, then cheated someone else out of the pieces they needed to cover their lie, put illegal bits of code in their operating system to break their competition (Digital Research's DR-DOS, being the one they actually had to admit to and pay for). They stole the Windows concept from Apple, and ended up having to pay royalties after they were caught again. Their entire history has been one of corruption, bribes, extortion, and criminal behavior. Indeed much of the business world has become morally bankrupt by following M$'s lead and saying .. hey can do it.. How one can say that making decisions that were not "in sync" with the law is not criminal is simply a whitewash of the facts. Today, they are basically engineering criminal extortion out of every person on earth by maintaining an illegal monopoly and forcing people to pay their excessive ransom for an inferior product that could be had cheaper if proper competition was allowed to exist.