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RE: Microsoft against "potentially viral" open source software
Subject:RE: Microsoft against "potentially viral" open source software From:"Glenn Maxey" <glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:47:24 -0600
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Byfield [mailto:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Microsoft against "potentially viral" open
> source software
>
>
> Jane Carnall wrote:
> >
> > Those of us working on Open Source projects might find this
> of interest...
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19953.html
>
> The User Friendly comic strip had the best reply to this: if
> Open Source
> is viral, or cancerous, what's the medical analogy for Microsoft?
> Tourette's Syndrome.
Showing my medical ignorance, what is Tourette's Syndrome? What are the
symptoms?
Even without knowing this, I can answer in true medical fashion that the
cure is: amputation.
Glenn Maxey
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
Tel. +1 303.223.5164
Fax. +1 303.223.5275
glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com
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