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

[Computer Books For Less]

At 02:44 PM 2/19/01, you wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Dan York wrote:
>
><snip>
> >    ... 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.
><snip>
>
>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 & Dan,

These are excellent exchanges and go right to the point. There are the 
kinds of exchanges I love to read and the reason I'm and OCLUG.


Sincerely,
Bruce Harding
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