[Am-info] Howzacome

[John Angelico]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:19:37 -0400, Gene Gaines wrote:

Hi there Gene.

>am-info@lists.essential.org,
>
>Howzacome,
>
>Everything I read by Torvalds, I am comfortable
>with, accepting and agreeing with him.
>
>Everything I read by the leaders at Microsoft,
>I disbelieve and in fact begin my thinking by
>assuming their statements are lies, or based
>somehow on lies.  (actually, using "leaders" and
>"Microsoft" in the same sentence aggravates me.
>
>Where did I go wrong?
>
>Or, perhaps, what did they do to deserve this?
>
>???
>
>Heck, this is all rhetorical, just my observation
>after reading the Business Week article.

Yes, I know it's rhetorical, and I liked a lot of what he said there, but the
worry I have with Linus is that he still trusts MS too much for my liking.

He doesn't believe they will use the lawyers to pursue patent cases against
Linux because they (Bill and Steve) hate lawyers, because they have been on
the receiving end of what the hated (second-oldest) profession dished out to
MS. 

He seems to be quite astute, having a grip on a wide range of intellectual
issues, BUT he appears still a little too naive re MS (lack of) ethics.

Maybe he's been too busy to notice the ugly vendetta against
Lindows/Lindash/Linspire. Likewise he comments on SCO vs IBM, but doesn't
seem to have noticed the way MS herded large sums of cash towards SCO, thus
making it look like their stalking horse... 


Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
os2@melbpc.org.au or 
talldad@kepl.com.au
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