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Article #652Re: "If there's a key learning for us, we can't have free software..."
From: phil hunt
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:30
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:30
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:37:02 +1300, Dingbat <not.a.real@address.com> wrote: >On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 11:14:10 +1300, "Adam Warner" ><usenet@consulting.net.nz> wrote: > >>Said Steve Ballmer at Microsoft' shareholder meeting: >> >> If there's a key learning for us, we can't have free software, it's >> kind of inconsistent with the goals of most people in the room. > >"a key learning"??? wtf kind of English is that? Yokel-speeek? To be fair, he could hardly be brutally honest and straightforward in what he says, e.g. "free software is bad because it would prevent us from being able to screw the maximum amount of money from our vict -- I mean customers" -- *** Philip Hunt *** philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk ***
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