“…When a Salon columnist dared wonder aloud if any
self-identified “free software hackers” might possibly have been
behind the Microsoft source code breach, he was charbroiled, but
good.”
“A Linux Today author joined in the speculation . What if any
Windows code were to be discovered inside any open source software
going forward? Samba Team leader Jeremy Allison pooh-poohs such a
prospect, but in the days since The Wall Street Journal first
reported the hack, lots of things have changed (including
Microsoft’s telling of its side of this story, but that’s another
column).”
“Think users are indifferent regarding whether it’s Windows
or Linux that they are running? If it’s Windows Explorer or GNOME
on their desktops? The near-simultaneous release on Halloween of
Microsoft’s next-generation Whistler beta and the near-final Linux
2.4 kernel beta showed just how much users do, in fact, obsess over
which operating system is faster, cheaper, easier to use and slower
to make it to the market.“