RE: [chat] Re: [SLUG] BIG Blue awakens IBM vs SCO

[Stuart Cooper <scoopersyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Lets call a spade a spade -  you are formulating a
> conspiracy theory here.
 
> By aligning facts together in a certain way to
> create a theory of 
> conspiracy, bingo - conspiracy theory.
 
MS paying SCO for a license doesn't mean much..it just
helps to support a message of "you gotta pay up to
SCO if you're using Unix ideas at all".

What I find very interesting is that a few months
earlier, MS did a survey of customers where they
threw a whole bunch of statements about Linux at
them to get their reactions to them (agree..
strongly agree..strongly disagree kind of stuff I
guess). The statements were kind of FUDdish stuff
like
"Linux is not cheaper in the long run because
of increased support costs" and so on...

Apparently most of the replies came back very pro
Linux..and the only strong reaction MS got was
to a statement something like
"There may be intellectual property and patent
concerns in Linux"

So..MS do a survey of FUD statements..the responses
come back quite pro Linux..the only statement the
customers reacted to anti Linux was IP concerns...
a short time later there is the SCO action on just
this matter.

Normally you'd give a company the benefit of the
doubt but when it's Microsoft it's preudent
to expect strong-arm, underhand and frequently illegal
activity.

Stuart.


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