Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 08, 2007 12:49 AM
That's what happened in Newham, UK. One British town official actually stated, "we just wave the Linux flag and it brings prices down." Hence the expression, "pulling a Newham."
Steve Ballmer also tried that (unsuccessfully) in Munich, Germany. Microsoft is trying it now in China and many other countries who are looking hard at Linux and other FOSS. Venezuela's President Chavez, by contrast, is telling them to go screw. I don't agree with all of Chavez's policies, but I sure do agree with that one.
As for Apple, actually, Apple's Mac OS X is proprietary as hell; it is merely a closed, proprietary fork of FreeBSD. Sure, they include a few GPL'd apps (Samba, GCC, bash), but so does the SCO Group. Doesn't make the platform FOSS or the company trustworthy. Heck, Microsoft for years has distributed PERL and Regina REXX (both GPL'd) in the Windows Resource Kit. Doesn't mean we should trust them, and that also goes for Apple.
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Re:Microsoft's attitude--that's what did it
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 08, 2007 12:49 AMSteve Ballmer also tried that (unsuccessfully) in Munich, Germany. Microsoft is trying it now in China and many other countries who are looking hard at Linux and other FOSS. Venezuela's President Chavez, by contrast, is telling them to go screw. I don't agree with all of Chavez's policies, but I sure do agree with that one.
As for Apple, actually, Apple's Mac OS X is proprietary as hell; it is merely a closed, proprietary fork of FreeBSD. Sure, they include a few GPL'd apps (Samba, GCC, bash), but so does the SCO Group. Doesn't make the platform FOSS or the company trustworthy. Heck, Microsoft for years has distributed PERL and Regina REXX (both GPL'd) in the Windows Resource Kit. Doesn't mean we should trust them, and that also goes for Apple.
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