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%%%'' -- ["Fusion" 2002 conference, Los Angeles | http://www.varbusiness.com/file/36355.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. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
%%%'' -- [June 2001 | http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html]''
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There's no company called Linux, there's barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it. That is, it's free.
%%%'' -- [Microsoft financial analyst's meeting, Seattle, July 2000 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12266.html]''
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+!! Corporate spin
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+Exhibit 1:
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+;; [CERT says | http://networks.org/?src=cert:713878] : __III. Solution.__ Until a complete solution is available, consider the following workarounds: [[...] __Use a different WebBrowser.__
+;; [Microsoft says | http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,64065,00.html] : "Regarding the consideration that users switch browsers, it is unfortunate that the published articles have misrepresented [CERT]'s suggestions, and we are working with [CERT] to clarify their advice."
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!! Others
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%%%'' -- Brian Valentine, Vice-president of MS Windows Development, .NET server developers' conference 2002''
I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.
%%%'' -- [Jim Allchin, Feb 2001 | http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc]''
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+"We're seeing crazy uptime numbers now, like three months, six months. I fully expect we'll see a year of uptime when Windows .NET Server 2003 is finished,"
+%%%'' -- Jeff Stucky, senior systems engineer at Microsoft.com, [praising Windows|http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/overview/dotnet/runningondotnet.mspx]''
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+"We have never had vulnerabilities exploited before the patch was known,"%%%
+'' -- David Aucsmith, head of Microsoft Security Business Unit, talking about [windows patches|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3485972.stm]''
