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February 9th, 2004, 11:02 PM
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Re: OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic
yep. and Gandolph would be the bearer of the open-source license.
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February 9th, 2004, 11:06 PM
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Re: OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic
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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
yep. and Gandolph would be the bearer of the open-source license.
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February 10th, 2004, 01:10 AM
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Re: OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic
while he may be right on some, most or even all accounts, he is also biased.
no, i didn't read the whole site. i didn't have to.
[ February 09, 2004, 23:10: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]
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February 10th, 2004, 01:30 PM
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Re: OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic
I was fortunate enough to see him speak at a Linux convention under just the right circumstances.
IGN (I think) was giving the Free Software Foundation an award that came with some amount of money. They called it the Linus Torvald Award for Such-And-Such. Stallman got up there and started going off. The most memorable line was "This is like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Fleet."
The poor 'spokes model' type up on stage holding the gigantic check got to looking a little worried, behind her carefully crafted pLastic smile, of course. After a little while, she started to lower the check. But then Stallman would sound like he was wrapping up, and she'd pull it back up. But they he wouldn't stop, and the check would slowly start lowering again.
I think I have the whole thing on tape somewhere. I'll have to dig it up and watch it again.
I think it was LinuxWorld '99 (which would explain IGN).
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February 10th, 2004, 09:08 PM
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Re: OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic
true, but we have him as gandolph, next thing you know, bush is sauron, blair is saramon and the whole thing is political.
when i entered his site, the major impression was his political views, not his monetary or anti-corporate views.
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