From: Michael Perelman (michael@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2007 - 19:49:54 EST
Gomes, Lee. 2001. "The Campaign Against Linux Is Uphill Battle for Microsoft." Wall Street Journal (14 June). In a recent Chicago Sun-Times interview with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, called Linux "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual-property sense to everything it touches." On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:25:30PM -0000, Paul Cockshott wrote: > I think what Gates says here is what many left wing computer people would also say. > > Paul Cockshott > Dept of Computing Science > University of Glasgow > +44 141 330 3125 > www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: OPE-L on behalf of glevy@PRATT.EDU > Sent: Sat 22/12/2007 5:34 PM > To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > Subject: [OPE-L] OpenSource: a "new source of communism" > > A short article from the English > online version of > _L'Humanite'_, > published by the PCF, in which > Bill Gates > is quoted as saying > that Open Source is a "new > source of communism": > > <http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article319.html> > > > The article, though, doesn't > identify the > original source for > the quote. > > In solidarity, Jerry -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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