They have a good partnership going. Along with the missing amigo (Jobs), they will rule the client/server OS world. Isn't that what they call coopetition?
Don't work to grow Linux, rather work to put the rest of commercial Linux (and other FOSS-related Monopolysoft obstacles) out of business so as to have King Ballmer give you control over that little tiny duchy.
Freeze market share and the competition (but pretend there is still a little competition).
Preserve Central Planning http://www.answers.com/topic/planned-economy .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_territories or more generally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices
General Hovsepian will manage the tactical flanking against Red Hat and other Linux opposition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanking_maneuver . Major ruling goal will be to find techniques to extract money from freeloaders running "free" software.
And for goodness sake, spread mono to make your job easier.
With over 6 million pounds in debt (nearly 10 million US dollars) we guess it's likely some other company will take over the site (if it deems it worthwhile)
The crash of this bubble isn't just inevitable, it's already happening and receding sporadically because of false announcements about money that does not actually exist (to "buy time")
When Debian wanted to stage a seemingly legitimate election it needed to have more than one candidate running; so eventually the female partner of a geek rose to the challenge (had no coding skills at all, no technical history in Debian) and lost to the "incumbent German"
Even back in the 90s many people converted programs from one language to another. That could invalidate copyleft (and copyright), which already existed
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Jose_X
2009-02-07 03:03:03
Don't work to grow Linux, rather work to put the rest of commercial Linux (and other FOSS-related Monopolysoft obstacles) out of business so as to have King Ballmer give you control over that little tiny duchy.
Freeze market share and the competition (but pretend there is still a little competition).
Preserve Central Planning http://www.answers.com/topic/planned-economy .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_territories or more generally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices
General Hovsepian will manage the tactical flanking against Red Hat and other Linux opposition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanking_maneuver . Major ruling goal will be to find techniques to extract money from freeloaders running "free" software.
And for goodness sake, spread mono to make your job easier.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-02-07 03:07:38