[CLUE-Talk] Happy Birthday linux

[Charlie Oriez]

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On Sunday 26 August 2001 18:45, Lynn Danielson gave up the right to 
remain silent by saying:
> Charlie Oriez wrote:

> > Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer earlier this summer referred to linux
> > as "a cancer".  Shows what he knows.  Linux was born on Aug. 25,
> > 1991, which would make it a Virgo.
>
> Did Stevie really say that Linux was a cancer?  I thought he made a
> comment like that in reference to the GPL.
>

Interview in Chicago on June 1

http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html

"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, 
you have to make the rest of your software open source....Linux is 
not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in 
an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the 
way that the license works."


- -- 
Charles Oriez   coriez at oriez.org
**
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, 
it's too dark to read".
   -- Marx

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