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.
Fact #1: over time slop gets worse (training set is like some blurry JPEG). Fact #2: People's "smell" for slop improves over time, as they 'train' on slop and can detect it based on prior encounters. Put 1 and 2 together.
Richard Stallman's seminal manifesto and foundational (practical) work on GNU gave us a very solid system that facilitates productive work without concerns over spyware
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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