Wednesday, July 17, 2002

MS Admits to FUD -- 9:30 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

In a rare moment of lucidity, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer admitted to using FUD against Linux. Specifically, their argument about Windows being cheaper than Linux simply couldn't hold water. Of course, we knew this all along. Thanks Slashdot.

The Master comments: Just don't read that page they link on Microsoft's website. It's just as full of BS as any of the other FUD that M$ has released in the past. I tire of hearing "integrated this and that" and "more secure" and "easier to manage" and "supports hotfixes" -- which in context is all marketing crap with no basis in reality. Lemme tell ya, I have a heck of a lot less to worry about maintaining this Linux server than I will ever have with Windows servers.

A.T. Hun comments: My favorite part on that page is the licensing info. It gives the example of the NVIDIA engineer who knowingly or unknowingly used GPL code in their closed-source driver. They were reprimanded and had to remove it at a "substantial cost". Apparently MS believes that they make this much simpler by not giving you access or rights to code you bought at all. Therefore, they reason, the GPL is bad because you can't steal code. MS is much better because you don't have the code at all. Ummm, yeah. I'll have to see if I can get the authors of that page a gig on Comedy Central. Nevertheless, it is somewhat refreshing to see Ballmer admit that a good chunk of it is garbage.

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