[rescue] fwd: Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software

[Phil Stracchino]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:49:28PM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> "Timothy Baldridge" <tbaldridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...] Not to mention that IBM vs M$ would almost be a guaranteed win for
>>> IBM.
>> i would almost pay to watch ms getting pounded with their own stick.
> 
> I'm not entirely convinced that one should be rooting for somebody to be an
> even bigger bully than Microsoft.

It's not so much rooting for someone to be an even bigger bully, as for
the habitual bully to make an error of judgement and pick a tougher
fight than he can handle.



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