[lug] MS: Open Source threatens American Way

[John Starkey]

Ahhhh.... don't give up so soon. The NSA is working with VMware to create a
filesystem that will protect classified info and still allow them to run
Windoze :}

I like to see it as Phase One in the transition :}

John


John Karns wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Neal McBurnett said:
>
> > Microsoft's Allchin is proclaiming that Open Source threatens the
> > American Way and hurts the "intellectual-property business".  I don't
> > know what he means by the "intellectual-property business" but if the
> > goal is not some useful product, but rather just turning ideas into
> > property, it sounds like a big drain on productivity and innovation
> > all by itself.  And I've heard that a lot of corporate patent
> > departments are just like that....
>
> That's it!  Linux is a threat to national security!  Now that's
> innovation.
>
> ... and it's perfectly OK for MS to give away IE and Outlook - it's fair
> competition!  But I guess it's exempt since it's not open source ....
>
> But hey, per their statements last week, they have nothing to worry about,
> as Linux technology is obviously inferior to that of the MS Windows
> platforms!
>
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> John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net
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