"Get me into that and goddam, we'll make so much money!"

--Bill Gates, Microsoft

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Summary: The attack on Linus Torvalds -- an attack which at his own expense/peril he fails to recognise/acknowledge -- seeks to put both projects that he founded right in Microsoft's palm

"WHAT'S mine is mine and what's yours is mine, too..."

So goes the motto at Microsoft, shows the Bill Gates deposition. They cannot grasp the concept of competition, let alone fair competition. Independent media is also an anathema, which is why both Gates and Microsoft bribe publishers (sometimes to oust their critics and delete articles critical of them... as if they're "blasphemous"). They increasingly control Linux through the Linux Foundation and increasingly control Git through GitHub (which is where they want Linux to go).

"They cannot grasp the concept of competition, let alone fair competition."Unfortunately, Mr. Torvalds is unable or unwilling to wake up and smell the coffee. Companies that want him powerless or retired (same effect) are taking over his projects and all they have in mind is proprietary software with surveillance, not Free software and not even Open Source -- a term that increasingly means nothing to these people. Torvalds couldn't have lost sight of what Microsoft did to Nokia, once the pride of his home country (and city). If someone can do anything at this point, regarding Git and Linux at least, it's their creator, not his so-called 'boss' who thinks Microsoft is like a "puppy". One can imagine what he thinks of Bill Gates... ⬆

"He [Bill Gates] acted like a spoiled kid, which is what he was."

--Ed Roberts, Gates' employer at MITS in the 1970's (Atlanta Journal-Costitution, 04-27-97)