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32BitsOnline: FUD Attack from the Empire

“I was going to rebuff the Microsoft fuddsters with a
point-by-point rebuttal of their first OPEN attack on Linux on
their website, but I can’t get through it without laughing myself
sick.”

“If you all think back to the DOJ trial and what a juggernaut
Linux seemed to be when these chimps were defending themselves in
court, you might see little differences in their posture. I guess
the attitude is “that was then, this is now”….and we all know
“the truth” is as flexible and malleable as any press release
they’d like to put out. This is the only corporate policy that
makes sense of these two very different attitudes – that lying is
good if it keeps market share, or fools the judge…”

We live in wonderful times if these (highly paid) folks
have to spend this much time and effort to debunk the “myth” that a
little “Unix-like” operating system could actually be a threat to
this trillion dollar company.


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