[Patents] Microsoft Executive Says Linux "threatens" innovation ;-))

[Krzysztof Sobolewski critto@wp.pl]

Date sent:              Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:10:18 GMT
From:                   Florent Garcia <fgarcia@atmel.fr>
Send reply to:          Florent Garcia <fgarcia@atmel.fr>
To:                     patents@liberte.aful.org
Subject:                [Patents] Microsoft Executive Says Linux 
Threatens Innovation

Hello,
well, now my rage to that guy (Jim Allchin) has fallen a bit, so I 
may think more logically, and my conclusions will be even more 
BITTER and more SPITEFUL.

> In case you missed this article.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation (Update1) 
02/14/01
> 04:57 PM Source: Bloomberg News URL:
> http://www.cnetinvestor.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-
1028-4825719-0.h
> tml
> 
> Redmond, Washington, Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp.'s 
Windows
> operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed 
software
> code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation and that 
legislators need
> to understand the threat.
 
Ah, what a shame ;-)) And who is sayin' that ??? VIP of the 
company accused of monopolist practices ??
 
> The result will be the demise of both intellectual property rights 
and the
> incentive to spend on research and development, he said 
yesterday, after
> the company previewed its latest version of Windows. Microsoft 
has told
> U.S. lawmakers of its concern while discussing protection of 
intellectual
> property rights.

Mind YOUR IP, NOT SOMEONE's else, Mr Allchin.
 
> Linux is developed in a so-called open-source environment in 
which the
> software code generally isn't owned by any one company. 

So what, Mr Allchin ??? It is not your business.

> That, as well as
> programs such as music-sharing software from Napster Inc., 
means the
> world's largest software maker has to do a better job of talking to
> policymakers, he said.

Ha ha ha !!!
Comparing Napster with Linux ??? No way.
While Napster lets anybody to share OTHERS' intellectual property 
-- even 'commercial' one, LINUX is a CONSENSUAL PROJECT. 
Somebody agrees to give away HIS (HER) OWN IP, and EY DO 
AS EY PLEASE, OKAY ??? 


What the mess here ??? Microsoft wants to sell their "Windows 
2000" for, say, 120 USD each pack. It's their business. By 
contrast, Debian chooses to give away the copies of their product 
FOR FREE. It is their business, too.

> ''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. 

It is NOT -- no more than Microsoft is. It is the contemporary and 
competetive project. Netscape leaders could say, that M$ is "IP 
DESTROYER" and so what ???

> can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the 
software
> business and the intellectual-property business.''

Blah, blah, blah ... So DO THE BETTER PRODUCTS, Bill'ssake!

> Microsoft distributes some of its programs without charge to 
customers,
> although it generally doesn't release its programming code, and it 
retains
> the ownership rights to that code. 

It is Microsoft's business, again. If at some time they choosed to 
change their minds and to uncover their code (full of bugs as I 
predict ;-)) is it why you don't do it ??? ;-)) )

> Linux is the most widely known
> open-source product, though other programs including the 
popular 
> Apache
> system for Web server computers also are developed the same 
way.

You are saying so trivial things ... Why you do that ?? We all 
know, WHAT is Open Source, Linus'sake !!! ;-)) Who cares ?


> Corel Inquiry
> 
> Allchin made his comments several hours before Microsoft 
confirmed that
> its $135 million investment in software maker Corel Corp. last 
October is
> being reviewed by the U.S. Justice Department. 

Ah-hah !!! Here we have the wolf at the doorstep ;-))

> Corel said last month it
> willl drop efforts to develop the Linux operating system, 

who needs that crap called "Corel Linux" ??? I know that the 
people who LOVE Linux (like me) prefer to choose Debian, 
Slackware, or Redhat, or some other. We don't like commercial 
Linux distribs -- we, users.

> though it will
> continue to make Linux applications. 

Very well. I like Corel's apps, though I don't use them (I've read 
much about them, I've seen some 'demo' versions, I've heard other 
people's opinions and all of them stated: WONDERFUL !!)

> Corel said it hadn't consulted with
> Microsoft before making that decision.

It is the sweet secret of Corel. Anybody may choose as ey please 
to. Corel makes Linux distrib ?? Very well. Corel stops doing it ?? 
Ah please yourselves, Corel folks!! ;-)) It is your choice anyway..

> Brian Behlendorf, founder of open-source company CollabNet 
Inc., said most
> companies that use the open-source development model do 
retain the rights
> to some of their intellectual property.

Of course they do!!! Linux and whole Open Source model depends 
on the 'contributory' creation. I create some part, somebody else  
(in another country, continent and so on) the another, and WE ALL 
create the ONE, BIG PROJECT -- It is called 'the Bazaar style' -- 
while anybody of us retains some 'rights' due to GNU General 
Public/Library Licence. We only mutually agree to GIVE AWAY 
those rights FOR FREE -- but we HAVE them still. It is, where 
information (or rights) differs from the matter. You can't have and 
give matter simultanously; you can do so about the info or rights.

> ''I think Microsoft is trying to paint the open-source community as 
being
> fascist; 

Microsoft simply looks into the mirror and follows the rule "judge 
others as you see yourself" ;-)) ;->>>

> that all software have has to be free, or none of it can be,''

"All software must be Windows compatible, or cease to exist" -- it 
would be a better motto for M$ policies.

> said Behlendorf, whose company helps businesses run their own 
open-source
> projects.
> 
> Allchin said he's concerned that the open-source business model 
could
> stifle initiative in the computer industry.

Ha ha ha!!!
Jokeful man... Maybe he would be better off in some TV humor talk-
show, than into the boring, brainwashing, constant position of 
"sales manager" or so ??? ;-))


> ''I'm an American, I believe in the American Way,'' he said. 

Really, Mr Allchin ???
Well, I'm maybe ignorant. I live in Poland, where I was born. And, 
As Far As I Know, "American Way" depends on the FREEDOM 
TO CHOOSE. One may choose making money, another one -- 
giving the products to the people for free. Laissez Faire ! means 
"LEave us alone" or "Let us act!" -- and it is related to everybody; 
for Linux, Micro$oft, IBM, and anybody else.
Anyway, aren't you stealing the name of "Amway" (it is the 
shorting of "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.''

You are right here, and ONLY here, Mr Allchin. As the free-market 
libertarian, I'm strictly AGAINST the government's intervention into 
the market. That's the main reason I'm against sw patents, too 
(they are the mercantilist, pro-monopolist crap). However, STOP 
trying to sell your products to Uncle Sam (and other govts) and I 
would invite you to some LIBERTARIAN society :-)) Down with 
governments, and with welfare states!!! Long live the minimal, 
minarchist state, which sole purpose is to protect Life, Liberty and 
Property !! 

Anyway, have you ever thought of buying some island on the 
Carribean Sea (an example, there are many else) and creating the 
Independent State there ("When in the course of human events it 
becomes neccessary for some people to ..." as US Declaration of 
Independence states)  ??? Would you give me a passport ?? ;-)
I would love to move there, if you don't outlaw Linux there of course 
;-)) I HATE living in a big, nation-state, socialist state, and so on!!

Whatmore, I think that this 'lobbying' efforts were NOT lobbying in 
real. They   were a kind of political happening -- to show M$'s 
position AGAINST "Sherman act" and other "anti-monopoly" US 
acts. To show all their stupidity, as well as the stupidity of the 
claims against M$ (like those, that M$ must reveal the whole code 
of Windows to everybody, what a crap!!). Very well. Let's abolish 
them. But before that, let's abolish software patents, and DO NOT 
DARE to attack your competitors -- regardless if they are the 
businesspeople, or the community people, by the means different 
from those available on the FREE MARKET to the HONEST people 
(that means: NO pro-restriction lobbying, NO cheating, and so). 

[cut]
       
> Microsoft only began significant lobbying efforts in the last few 
years.
> The Redmond, Washington-based company also talks to 
lawmakers about issues
> including the need for more visas for people with computer skills 
and
> computer privacy and security.

It's nice to see it on them. Well, the truth is different: LET'S 
ABOLISH THE VISA SYSTEM. Let EVERYBODY go free, 
wherever ey chooses. To USA, to Europe, everywhere else.
 
> Linux is the fastest-growing operating system program for 
running server
> computers, according to research firm IDC. It accounted for 27 
percent of
> unit shipments of server operating systems in 2000. Microsoft's 
Windows
> was the most popular on that basis, with 41 percent.

Ah, and we've got you here !!! Well, we Linuxers are catching you, 
still you are before us but NOT too much ... Not too much ... And 
the player nr 2 catches the first corner ... Yeah !!! Now he (Linux) 
carries the shirt of a Winner !!! Losedows ;-))(not Windows) are 
behind! ;->>

> Despite Linux's success in some markets, Allchin says he isn't 
concerned
> about sales competition from the product. Microsoft provides 
support to
> change and develop products based on its operating system 
software that
> Linux companies don't, he said. Companies that use Linux in 
their products
> then must pay someone else for support, he said.

And thus WE ARE CREATING THE NEW JOBS. Good admin is a 
God here, Mr Allchin. Nobody but a good Admin ! And it pays, it 
really pays -- I have some experience here, be sure ...

> ''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said. 

Don't boast, Mr Jim. It's so stupid, and unworthy. Just DO IT, and 
we will see. Even the Bill's MOST LOVELY copy of Win'98 
(Lose'98) has hanged at the biggest show, witnessed by the many. 
Just MAKE some changes, and we will see. You need the better 
programmers, better checking and so on.

> ''There is always
> something enamoring about thinking you can get something for > 
free.'"

WRONG. "There is always something STUPID in believing to the 
ADVERTS. All of them LIE, more or less..." There are FOUR (not 
three, as Mark Twain said) sorts of lies "Lies, damn lies, statistics, 
and adverts" ;-))

Yours in Software and Human Liberty,
      Krzysztof (Christopher) "Critto" Sobolewski

PS. Sorry for ''too many' addresses in "To:" line. I'm tryin' to find Mr 
Alchin's (or even Microsoft's) address there, for the M$'s "portal" is 
really crappy, there is only a form for feedback, NO mail 
addresses...
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