[extropy-chat] The Internet: a commie, socialist conspiracy!

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/22/05, Jack Parkinson <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com> wrote:
>
> Some interesting observations and opinions from Slate magazine. In a world
> ruled by profit-focused business - the Internet could never have arisen...
>
> Full story see: http://www.slate.com/id/2130798
> Two short snips:
>
> "This month, SAP's Shai Agassi referred to open-source software as
> "intellectual property socialism." In January, Bill Gates suggested that
> free-software developers are communists. A few years earlier, Microsoft
> CEO
> Steve Ballmer called the open-source operating system Linux "a cancer."
> Considering what these guys say in public, I wonder what dark words they
> utter in private-that al-Qaida uses open-source software to plot terrorist
> attacks?"


I wonder what they are going to say if/when Negraponte's $100 laptop goes
into mass production? It sure won't be running Windows, and if it runs Linux
then the latter could move to snatch the top position from MS in the overall
personal market. That could be a huge blow to MS.

Dirk
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