[aclug-L] Re: There are still some monkeys in the CEO chair

[ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

M$ is running scared because their server maket has made a dramatic 
drop.  M$ will say anything to get people to not use linux.  I use to 
hear all the stories, that linux is a "beta OS" and when and if ever it 
gets out of beta testing that they might try it.  I also use to hear 
that linux might be a nice OS, but it needs to have some software that 
will run on it.  The OS is vunerable because hackers can get the code 
and find backdoors.  I realize that these people are stupid and need to 
take their blinders off.  Maybe their skull cap or ball cap is much too 
tight.  They can follow their nice narrow path, but I like linux.  I 
still have windoze 2000 and XP pro, but I still prefer linux.  ~Anne


jeffrey l koehn wrote:

> Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft says:
>"Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus 
>years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a 
>clone of a 20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't have 
>some place for some customers, but that is not an innovative 
>proposition."
>"Some people say it is an advantage that Linux gets built in all of 
>these little pieces. The fact is that if you want to do some kind 
>of integrated innovation that touches the kernel, that touches the 
>user interface--there is no way. Maybe Linus (Torvalds) can control 
>the innovation in the piece called the kernel, but there are many 
>pieces."
>
>Of course, the "piece called the kernel" is Linux and
>Linux is not an operating system, nor is Linux a clone.
>
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