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Comment Re:Evolution of strategy (Score 1) 276

by bkp_42 on Friday October 19, 2007 @08:56AM (#21039957) Attached to: Microsoft Planning to Buy Open Source Companies?

I don't think Microsoft's "strategy" here is to embrace open source and have a great big Open Source love in with the community. They cannot compete effectively with open source so they are going to buy as many open source companies as they can and Shut Them Down. The strategy is to completely eliminate the competition.

Journal Journal: SCO Linux Tax

Journal by bkp_42 on Tuesday August 05, 2003 @10:44PM

What do you guys think of the SCO Linux Tax? (http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13000135) $699 for a copy of Linux? Worth every penny I agree, but not to SCO!?!? Talk about trying to rip off the blood and sweat of all those developers who put their hearts into Linux. I don't know the details behind the SCO lawsuit, and frankly I don't care what their money grubbing reasons are for bringing this up. I think this raises a larger issue with respect to software pa

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