[Gllug] London Connects

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Fri Feb 13 17:19:00 UTC 2004


On Fri 13 Feb, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> 
> On Friday 13 Feb 2004 3:31 pm, Mamading Ceesay wrote:
> 
> > When dealing with Microsoft, it is crystal clear to everybody that they
> > oppose open source.  OpenForum claim to support open source but their
> > policies and positions are the very opposite of what open source needs
> > to survive and thrive.
> 
> According to the BBC today, that shouldn't be too much of a problem in the 
> future!  
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3486011.stm
> 
> Chris
> 
   M$ will probably try to take advantage of what happened (if they did not
leak it themselves) by saying that it was only the source code for
out-of-date packages, while the "security risk" involved was nothing
compared with that of OSS.

-- 
Chris Bell

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