[aclug-L] Lies, twisted words, and big balls

[jeffrey l koehn <caveman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From an article in the Seattle Times
about Micro$oft's shareholders meeting on Nov. 7th:
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At the same time, Ballmer and Gates made it clear they won't 
embrace the free "open source" software backed by some industry 
players, including IBM.

Gates said there's a role for free software alongside commercial 
software, but the open-source movement taken to its extreme would 
mean no software jobs or taxes paid by software companies, and it 
would mean companies such as Microsoft would not risk investing in 
advanced products.

Gates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source 
software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing 
computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is 
because we came in and said there should be a platform that's 
identical with millions and millions of machines," he said.
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