Re: [Hampshire] More on the M$ and Novell deal

Am I alone in seeing parallels with G.W. Bush and impending "victory" in Iraq?

CAS.


On 07/01/07, Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 14:08 +0000, John Cooper wrote:
> > Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > >"Duh, Linux is a threat. The rest of the article reads like hearsay FUD."
> >
> > >I particularly cannot imagine what a fantasy such as the following is doing in a supposedly credible news source:
> >
> >
> > It isn't fantasy but it is FUD. It is someone applying their strategy to
> > the type of meeting that would have been called and playing them at
> > their own game. It shows the most likely reason of Embrace, extend and
> > extinguish. They can't touch the GPL so trying to fragment the community
> > is one way to try and reduce the threat.
>
> So exactly which of the alleged "9 people" who were in that room wrote
> the article then? Looks like pure speculation to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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