Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 02:50, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:03:49 +1000
>
> Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Microsoft is not evil in my opinion. They make good and easy-to-use
> > software.
>
> Some light bedtime reading for you :-)
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
>
> I could go on...
>
> Note that I'm not saying MS is alone.
>
> By the way, what has "making good ... easy to use software" to do with
> ethical questions?
>
> I recommend the URLs above. Entertaining reading...
>
> Peter
My point is that what they mainly do is do their job. This is not a bad thing 
from any perspective. 

I am familiar with the monopoly case. In this, microsoft was at least partly a 
victim of its own success.

As for the halloween memorandum, the quotes he isolates seem to say only that 
OSS is a threat, go figure, and suggest a strategy to combat it. What is so 
evil about that.

Sasha