[lug] Microsoft outlaws open source with .NET

[John Karns]

> > > > --- Deva Samartha <blug-receive at mtbwr.net> wrote:
> > > > > Microsoft associates the terms "viral" and
> > > > > "virus" with GPL-ed software.
> > > > > This is a clever move to discredit open
> > > > > software.
> > > >
> > > > **  for some reason it makes me think
> > > >     of the terms
> > > >
> > > >            the "big lie"
> > > >
> > > >               and
> > > >
> > > >            "adolph hitler"

It seems to me that BG & Co are getting desparate to crush Linux.  I
heard mention of BG using NPR as a soapbox to air his anti-open source
propaganda.  Make no mistake - they will stop at nothing to manipulate
public opinion to serve their purpose.

I seems that due to it's popularity Linux is being perceived as a threat
to the M$ monopoly; perhaps now that judge Jackson has been discredited
(just who was it that interviewed Jackson to ask him the leading questions
that started all that?  What role might BG & Co have played in initiating
it?  To say that it was the act of an independent news publication or
entity such as a TV network should not negate influence peddling) and the
case judgement has been conveniently neutralized, they probably feel that
the way has cleared.

I would further suggest that the release of .net for Free BSD may be a
ploy to counter an image of the monopolist coming out against all other
OS's; but I would expect that as soon as they were to succeed at outlawing
Linux, they would turn their attention toward OS's such as BSD,
particularly if it ever were to achieve the kind of popularity that Linux
has.  This, to me, is the true nature of the genius of BG.

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John Karns                                                jkarns at csd.net