[oclug]For the Mac / Linux fans

[Brad Barnett]

On 10 Jan 2003 09:45:14 -0500
Dave Edwards <dle1 at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 09:21, Brad Barnett wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > This is giving ammo to the other side.  This is, effectively, treason.
> >  
> > 
> > Keep in mind, this is a _war_ we are in here.  Even if you don't think
> > you are a war, the other side does.  Apple and Microsoft want Linux
> > dead, the kernel destroy, the source outlawed.  IBM and others want it
> > alive, but as controlled as possible.  In a sense, Linux is a little
> > like Canada was during the Cold War.  If the Soviet Union and the US
> > had a war, many thought it would take place over and on our soil.
> > 
> > This is Linux's fate.
> 
> Jeez, Brad -- I was with you right until you started using words like
> "treason" and "war".  That kind of language is way too strident for me. 
> There's enough of that going around.  I don't doubt that MS and so on
> see it that way, and I think that alone is good enough reason for "us"
> to adopt a lighter-hearted approach.  How we do what we're doing is as
> important as the outcome -- in fact, I think that the "how" will
> directly affect whether we succeed at all, or do not.
> 

Exactly.  M$ and Apple do see it that way.  This was my point entirely. 
We have to understand how they think, in order to clearly see their
motives.