[Gllug] I do not like this person

David Irvine co2cool at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 15 14:46:23 UTC 2002


On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 23:51, will wrote:
> 
> Quote from the back page of the magazine thing from the financial times 
> on 13/04/02 (I don't read it, I found it on the tube):
> 
> 'Far from bringing openness and co-operation to the world of IT, Linux 
> enthusiasts want to keep it as closed as possible, while collecting 
> lavish praise from half-baked anti-capitalists so they can feel 
> important.  After all, if these geeks could write real software they'd 
> be working for a proper company.  Like Microsoft.'
> 
> 			Fiona Harvey
> 
> that was from the end of her generally uncomplimentary article.  Whoah 
> it made me mad, I don't know her but I don't like her.
> 
> Dunno if it will come out on the FT.com site at all, but it doesn't seem 
> to be there at the moment.
> 

If it does, I wonder if they could cope with being /.'d and reg'd  :D

I'm sure Fiona researched into the matter very deeply, read all the
articles on M$ press etc and consulted all the fully qualified msce's
before it was published. Bah!

David




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