[Leaplist] Rob Enderle's analogy of Microsoft's activity re Linux.

[Phil Barnett]

Rob's comment below can be found in the article cited at the bottom.


        "Why do you make me hurt you like that?"
        <http://blogs.computerworld.com/could_microsoft_be_trying_to_acquire_tomtom#comment-131188>

*Submitted by Rob Enderle on February 26, 2009 - 11:12 P.M. *

they might even have a chance to drop the lawsuit and get open-source 
companies to forget that Microsoft is not now, never has been, and never 
will be, open-source's friend.

Youre still a Novell apologist but every once in a while you hit it on 
the nose ;-)

I compare Microsoft to an abusive spouse. They beat, threathen and abuse 
you and then they buy you flowers/sponsor FOSS shows hoping you forget 
everything.
Of course, this never lasts long and eventually you get 'what you 
deserve' and then the whole circle repeats itself.

Im sure the 'pragmatists' will tell us that there are lots of fine 
people at Microsoft who really want to work with Linux and FLOSS but I 
have never taken the words of some lower management flunky over the ones 
of the CEO. Those words by Rajmi/Milf/etc mean nothing, its the words of 
the guy who signs the checks that matter.

Imagine some marginal paper pusher at Apple claiming that the company 
was going to change 180degrees and people believing him over Jobs.
Well, that's what people are doing with Microsoft: hearing only the 
sirens songs and not the 900 pound gorilla.
The gorilla is the boss: what he says goes.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/could_microsoft_be_trying_to_acquire_tomtom

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