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Story: Microsoft on warding off the Linux threat

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(1) They only built their Linux Lab to study it.
ie: To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy.

This nonsense about "interoperability" is all public balony. You don't study your enemy to work with him. You study him to KILL him! Because he stands in your way!

And what about the EU anti-trust case? The key concern was about interoperability in the first place! (Allowing competitors to view the specs such that they can create alternatives that work with MS solutions seemlessly.)

Its one thing to say that you'll change...Its another to actually change! Judging by Mr McGrath's view, MS hasn't really changed on the inside...Its all a public facade to make it look like it has!

(2) Do you folks notice that this MS rep used a 2 yr old report as part of his argument for security?

What about in recent times? (as in the last six months)

By the way, this report was heavily criticised as nonsense. (ie: Part of Microsoft's FUD campaign against Linux back in 2004)

Here is the counter-article to Mr McGrath's Forrester article...

Windows v Linux security: the real facts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/linux_v_windows_security/

I find Nick McGrath's comments very interesting. Its completely undoing what Bill Hilf is trying to do! (Bill Hilf is the guy in charge of MS's Linux Lab).

Deep down, we know Microsoft has intentions to crush and destroy open-source. All this public olive branching and playing nice, is because it has to. (As past anti-opensource FUD campaigns have failed miserably). Heck, they even fired that guy who came up with the idea of "Get the Facts" website!

MS is pressured into being nice, and NOT by its own initiative...You'd think they'll play nice if this pressure wasn't upon them?

The true nature of Microsoft isn't the Public Relations nonsense it dishes out...Its the actions they make!

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