[oclug] e-smith response to Microsoft... :-)

[Dave Edwards]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Dan York wrote:

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>    ... while you read it on LinuxToday, and that was where I pointed people,
>    tthe news release in fact went out on the wire (BusinessWire) from where it
>    can be picked up by a zillion other news outlets (if they so choose).
>    So we were trying to reach the larger audience (and have some fun in the
>    process).
Apologies.  :)

>    Yes... BUT... while I think we must respond to outright lies and 
>    supreme FUD, we must not allow doing so to distract us from our larger
>    goal of improving Linux and developing better software.  Every minute
>    or every hour that we spend *responding* to MS is one minute or hour
>    less that we are not working on better software or other things that
>    help advance our efforts. IMHO, if we let *MS* frame the issues and we
>    are constantly responding to them, we lose.  If, on the other hand,
>    we continue to develop better and better software, then we force MS
>    to respond... as they did with this Allchin interview.
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Those are very valid points.  I just think that now that MS is throwing
around lies along the lines of `un-American', those must be loudly
repudiated and MS condemned for stooping so low.  Partly, I'm wondering
where are the responses from ESR, Bob Young, Bruce Perens, RMS, Larry
Augustin,et al.  I think they should be leading on this.  Or how about
representatives from IBM, HP, Sun, NASA , etc.?  Has anyone read anything
from these people?

Dave.
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