Crackpots assail M$’s Ballmer FUD* with mounting shrillocity.

Man, they really have to do something about those wide-eyed radicals at eWEEK getting all shrill and crazy on Steve Ballmer. It’s getting so bad you can’t tell the mainstream media from the Freetard bloggers anymore.

Why Ballmer’s Protection FUD Matters

As for new ideas, open source is the new idea of the 21st century. After decades of thinking that only way software can be valuable is if it’s hidden and proprietary, open source has shown that you can create new things faster and better. It’s an idea that’s so radical people are still trying to get their heads around the notion that you can make money by giving something away.

Nevertheless, we must continue to challenge Ballmer on both his explicit and implicit attacks on Linux and open source. If we don’t, we end up in a situation where his arguments that Linux and open-source software buyers should pay protection, excuse me, buy a Microsoft patent covenant begin to sound like the sensible, prudent thing to do. It’s not.

“So, with all due respect Steve, until you’re willing to start talking sense, and stop making empty threats, I won’t pay. I know too much about extortion.”

Yeah, I mean check out this moonbat’s BIO.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is editor of eWEEK.com’s Linux & Open Source Center and Ziff Davis Channel Zone. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, Vaughan-Nichols worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects. Since then, he’s focused on covering the technology and business issues that make a real difference to the people in the industry.

Obviously he’s a fringe element, a NASA-trained subversive.

*Ballmer Fud…get it?

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