Does this remind anyone else of Rambus after their memory flopped?

The Linux source code has been better organized and better written for years. As a software developer, this can make it as much as infinitely easier to add features. Linux is now starting to catch and surpass Windows on all fronts, and Microsoft is probably getting scared. The only place where Microsoft still has a secure lead, is the much hated DRM, but thanks to DVD Jon I can play my Movies and iTunes.

They have already tried this kind of FUD via a proxy (SCO). What they might be realizing now is that the people who wrote NT and 2000 are gone, the minor revisions to the OS that followed have failed to maintain their market share, and there aren't any more innovators to buy. There is only FUD.

Crooks threat others like crooks...

Ergo, you can't be nice if you are a crook yourself....

We all know M$ is all about fairplay and being nice now don't we??

Yeah right.......

In essence, this is what's happening:
"Hey, you, give me money!"
"Err... why?"
"You have something of mine."
"What is it?"
"I'm not saying. Pay up."

Maybe I should switch to Red Hat just to annoy him.
So much hot air...
M.

Is Steve Ballmer really getting that scared of the open source surge or dose he just not like red hats in general.

The man is going to go down in history as another iconic idiot.

Viva la Red Hat.

In a sense, I owe my monthly salary to Microsoft. Am I going to have to give Ballmer a percentage then ?
I think not.
And I don't think his sense is any better than mine. I don't particularly support Red Hat, but any Linux outfit is entirely right to tell Monkey Boy to take a hike and blow out someone else's eardrums.
The Open Source community owes nothing to Microsoft, whereas Microsoft has been pilfering ideas and code left, right and center.
It's a shame that shame doesn't kill.

If Microsoft thinks it owns IP and that Linux (Red Hat) users should pay them. Then I think Microsoft needs to pay back all the developers and their companies for all the concepts and code that they have benefited from. How many developers that worked for Microsoft were once working for other companies that brought in ideas and source that benefited MS Office, MS Studio and all the OS kernels and trinkets. When you are the monopoly with all this collection of warez from other sources then you owe us (the developer world) a return on our investments. Linux is a shared community OS, Microsoft should consider the small infraction a contribution to the community.

Please post the source code of your operating systems, Mr. Balmer, so your good buddies at Novell and your not-so-good buddies at Red Hat and IBM can run a search bot and then sue you into the stone age for the thousands of duplications of *NIX code that most probably will pop up. Your SCO-puppet was crushed, but now just look at all those MS $ waiting to make the open source companies suddenly very rich...

MS bad mouthing Linux is similar to how the US bad mouthed Iraq before it invaded it. Should MS ever decide to "invade" Linux it will probably end up in over it's head and have it's infrastructure destroyed by angry linux fanboys.

Ballmer doesn't realize that if he's got a problem with Linux then he's got a problem with Muhammad Ali and Laverne (you know, of Laverne & Shirley?) Amongst other people. You should know who you're dissing!

I run Linux! It's on my Nokia 770 and my IOGear BOSS router and my Linksys WAP. NONE of them are all that particularly reliable, compared to Vista. In fact it's all no better than a bunch of dollar-store junk (same goes for my problematic copy of Mac OSX).

Wake me up when something of quality comes available. Zzzzzz....