Re: Microsoft against "potentially viral" open source software

Subject: Re: Microsoft against "potentially viral" open source software
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:04:36 -0700

Jane Carnall wrote:
>
> Those of us working on Open Source projects might find this of interest...
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19953.html

The User Friendly comic strip had the best reply to this: if Open Source
is viral, or cancerous, what's the medical analogy for Microsoft?
Tourette's Syndrome.

Microsoft has also called open source "unAmerican." As a Canadian, I'm
**really** worried about this claim ;-)

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