I try not to drink the Kool-Aid either on Microsoft's side (again, they are not necessarily my cup of tea), but the prevalence of the people with the "Hey! Remember that Steve Ballmer called Linux a cancer? Micro$$$hit!!" attitude sucks my energy dry.

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fuzztester 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

who at microsoft said open source is unamerican

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+at+microsoft+said+open+s...

one of the results:

Weekly news wrapup: Microsoft claims Linux is un-American:

https://www.linux.com/news/weekly-news-wrapup-microsoft-clai...

from 2001.

well, gosh, I feel sorry for those American Linux developers of that time. I guess they were unAmerican, according to Allchin. if they were of this time, i guess they would have been deported by ICE.

sorry for the victim now ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-48lNCrmqxA

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ivanmontillam 6 days ago | parent [-]

Well, for starters: Linux is of Finnish origin.

Linus Torvalds might be a U.S. citizen today, but during the first years of Linux he was certainly not thinking U.S. values and that someday his biggest userbase would be there.

> Weekly news wrapup: Microsoft claims Linux is un-American:

Yeah, typical Ballmer-era.

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abcd_f 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> he was certainly not thinking U.S. values

Damn. I wasn't sure if you were trolling above and now it's clear that you were.

	▲	fuzztester 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		yeah! jfc. what a pompous, fake hipster mentality he has. I looked him up, via his HN profile: here is his About me section, at the bottom of his blog's main page - https://www.ivanmontilla.com/ : I found it so funny and hypocritical that I highlighted some of the sillier phrases below - in italics : ------------------------- About me Ivan Montilla I self-define as a challenger of the status quo. Usually, I question trends. Normalcy is to be avoided. Some of the greatest opportunities lie where no one else is looking. I’m more of a niche markets guy. My interests are ever-changing, but I’m currently interested in financial markets technology. I’m also passionate for software performance. I do develop some software, but not professionally. I’m more of a power user of programming languages. I see it as a craft, both engineering and some form of art. ---------------------------

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fuzztester 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

if that's the case, you must not have had much energy to begin with.

Kool-Aid and tea can do that to you :)