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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:24:30 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> That is from 2006, and has been greeted with a great deal of suspicion and
> scepticism by the FOSS community. From what I can gather, it is considered
> more
> of a threat to open source than any kind of support. Open source people
> don't
> seem to trust Microsoft's intentions at all, and the feeling seems to be that
> it
> is a way to infiltrate the open source community, bluff the Linux community
> (with some success already) into signing various agreements with M$ which
> seem
> to imply there is something in M$'s claims of patent infringement, and to
> look
> after M$'s interests generally.
> Remember, the Billy Goat is out of it now, and Steve Ballmer is in control of
> Microsoft !
> Does anybody on this list trust Steve Ballmer ?
Right on Ron!
M$ does nothing with good intentions, and Ballmer makes BG look ethical.
Regards,
Ray Andrews
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