It's Time to Get Over Microsoft

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Nov 19, 2007 5:13 AM EDT
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Free and open source software (FOSS) advocates need to stop obsessing about Microsoft. But, just as clearly, many of them won't, if the reactions I received when I blogged about the subject are any indication. Never mind that FOSS is a necessary fixture in modern business, or has evolved defenses that ensure its survival -- or that paranoia and juvenile gestures like talking about "Micro$oft" and "Windoze" only hurt the cause. For many, hatred of Microsoft is a way of life, and they'd be lost without it.

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MS bashing is just a small amusing community distraction greggh 35 3,358 Nov 20, 2007 8:49 AM
Actually, seems to be quite the reverse. vainrveenr 7 1,514 Nov 19, 2007 6:53 PM

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