[ale] VA Linux IPO - The Sad Thing ?

[pete.hardie at dvsg.sciatl.com (Pete Hardie)]

Mike Smith wrote:
> 
>         But the difference is....that we, the open source community, own the source
> to their product(Redhat, Caldera, VA, etc).  If we don't like Redhat we can
> use slackware or debian or Suse or.....  The difference is that we can make
> a change.  With Microsoft, it's their code and they can do whatever they
> want.  Linux is the democratic OS while Microsoft is the socialist OS.  We,
> the people, own Linux while they, the Government, owns Microsoft.

I'd say Microsoft is the fascist OS, in both meanings of the word - if MS were
socialist, it would be better, at least in doing things to benefit the users.

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