Yes Linus, Microsoft hating is a disease. And it’s a pandemic

[ Thanks to steve
hill for this link. ]

“It’s a Cuckoo in the nest and the nest seems to
be inhabited by trusting, cooing doves. Communities are
characterized by shared values. Microsoft is a community of one.

“The really worrying part of this excerpt is his admission that
he he is a big believer in technology over politics. For someone
who is one of the biggest and most important people in the free
software community this displays a really worrying detachment from
reality. I’m not a hard core politico but, however vile
politics is (with a small p), you’ll ignore it at your peril.
Microsoft play commercial politics as an in house blood sport and
it is axiomatic that if others do not, they will be eaten for
breakfast. History is littered with examples of scientific purists
who behaved like ostriches and refused resolutely to deal with the
politics of science and technology. In one way I don’t blame
them. Politics is a messy and dirty business, whether it is
politics with a capital P, office politics or the politics of free
software but if ignored it is likely to turn round and bite
you.”

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