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Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Interview, Microsoft, Novell at 12:25 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
As further analysis of the Bill Hilf interview SundayRefugee submits:
=> further analysis of the Bill Hilf interview
From the Bill Hilf interview:
“That’s why when we do these partnerships we want to use, we want to partner with the people who are distributing the product that customers use…”
He nearly says ‘we want to use these distributors (of Linux)’, catches himself, and has to quickly rephrase it.
“We published a patent map, which shows, literally, we listed out every number and we listed out every category it fits in and we published that so everyone can see it, because everybody kept asking us, well, what are the patents? (Note: a Microsoft spokesman later clarified Hilf was referring to a categorized tally of possibly infringed patents published earlier this year in a Fortune article, not a detailed list of every specific patent, which Microsoft declined to provide to InformationWeek.)”
”…they’ve been purposefully vague in the hopes of scaring potential customers.“Of course they’ve done no such thing – they’ve been purposefully vague in the hopes of scaring potential customers. Either Microsoft’s “biggest brain” on Open Source A) is dramatically misinformed and utterly clueless about even the essential goings-on in even his own company, let alone the complicated Open Source landscape, or B) purposefully lying, with the only intent on FUDing Open Source and Linux, in the hopes he somehow won’t have his bluff called.
Thought you might want to catch that. There are several other great quoteworthy statements, but those are the two biggest that caught my eye. I wrote my replies as if I were addressing he average ‘boycott’ user.
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