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LinuxWorld: An Open-Source Challenge to Messrs. Gates & Ballmer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 28, 2003

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Dear Sirs

“I see you have been active again in making interesting–and to
some degree highly amusing–statements about Free/Libre Open Source
Software and the many and varied people who make up its
community.

“I in particular would like to thank Mr Ballmer for your
entertaining expose of Linux’s deepest, darkest secret–that it can
seriously worry the senior executive of a convicted predatory
monopoly, without that ever having been the intention of its
principal software designer and initial developer.

“I would also like to thank you for humming and hawing around
the question of the release of source code to people who can use
it, in the light of the new MVP source code entitlement program.
Well, are they deserving members of the Windows development team or
not…?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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