Microsoft tries to prevent Free Software (Spiegel Article)

[John Peter Tapsell <John Tapsell]

Damn.  You've hit it bang on the head.

Your good ;)

John


On Thu, 01 Jan 1970, OP Mailserver user wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There is a danger in responding too seriously to Microsoft's allegations.
> We may appear to give credibility to their "Big Lie".
> 
> I think we should make their rhetoric humorous so that people laugh at them:
> 
> Eg Microsoft corp is not so much viral as saprophytic,
> it makes nothing new, it infects and degrades standards 
> and absorbs unprotected freesoftware to make up for its own inabilities.
> 
> Microsoft FUD tactics can be dubbed "Bill's Micro-toxins"
> 
> And when people have had a laugh at biological analogies, point out the serious side:
> 
> Eg Secret code and secret back doors in the Windoze O/Ss mean you can never keep viruses out.
> 
> When viruses are written against freesoftware the community rapidly develops and freely shares counter-measures.
> 
> Microsoft and all its software exist for one purpose, to extract as much money as possible from as many people as possible.
> 
> Freesoftware is a charitable movement of volunteers who write and distribute their code for the good of all who might benefit.
> 
> Microsoft's monoploy is now threatened by charity. It is threatened because charitably written freesoftware works better than theirs.
> Microsoft's answer to charity is to intimidate users and legislators to ban charity and protect monoploy.
> 
> Nick Hockings
> 
> 
> 
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