Clarke Scott (who once applied for a job as a Microsoft evangelist, although we should note that I don't hold the Microsoft job application moral high ground)
He just comments that the community is less free as a result.
Windows is a trade mark too. How does having Linux trademarked any more restrictive that Microsoft owning the Windows mark?
Update: Clarke commented on this post to mention that I had missed that this was a quote from another site, which I am happy to concede. He also suggests the post was tongue in cheek, despite the fact that I can see no indication of that having re-read the post.
Update: Fixed broken link
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Clarke Scott
Hi Mikal,
NOTE: The tone of this comment is one of tongue-in-cheek!
The post is actually not mine!
It is via http://blogs.msdn.com/darrylburling/archive/2005/08/22/454341.aspx
So perhaps you should change the title of your post to...
Mikal, you need to look into things a little before mouthing off :)
Cheers,
- Clarke
James Purser
The links broken to the post, brings up a generic "results" page.
Clarke Scott
> He also suggests the post was tongue in cheek, despite the fact that I can see no indication of that having re-read the post.
I wasn't suggesting that the post was tongue-in-cheek but, that the last line of my first comment was!
Perhaps you should read things properly before adding commentary!
Clearly, you are more upset by the fact that Linux has been flamed than anything else and why you brought up that I applied for a gig at Microsoft I don't know. But, I suspect it was to discredit my view!
Which by the way is that Linux a great product and over the years I have recommneded it to many customers!
Clarke
Michael Still
Clarke,
regardless of my failure to interpret your tone correctly, I don't see how your post added anything to the discussion. I'm not particularly upset by the flaming of Linux per se (I have a foot solidly in both camps), but I am bothered by the needless repetition of a post which was poorly thought out and researched to start with.
I linked to your details about Microsoft employment (and mine) as a way of fully disclosing any bias that might have been present in the posts.
It annoys me that Microsoft evangelists continue to have a debate based on FUD, not on actual facts. Do they want what is best for their customers or not? Sure, there is some of that behaviour in the open source camp as well, but Microsoft exercises centralised control over their employees in a way which cannot occur for random flaming fanboys.
It's time for Microsoft to take the moral high ground for once, instead of acting like gutter trash. If their product is genuinely better -- then they should talk about that, not random crap.
I appologise if the tone of my original post was unjustified. It is interesting to see that someone else interpreted it in the same way (that comment isn't from me).
I can't see anything on your site about having actually used Linux, and don't recall any posts about Linux as a valid option on your blog, so I also appologise for assuming you're a random Microsoft fanboy.