{"id":171,"date":"2004-06-28T00:56:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T05:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=171"},"modified":"2004-06-28T00:56:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T05:56:48","slug":"the-goat-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/28\/the-goat-comes-to-town","title":{"rendered":"The goat comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So by now, its a well known fact, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/billgates\/default.asp\">Bill Gates<\/a> is coming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/malaysia\/events\/innovation-day\/\">to Malaysia for an Innovation Day<\/a>. If that doesn&#8217;t tickle your fancy, Gates and Ballmer are probably going to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/quote.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000080&#038;sid=a8qzSsjH53H4&#038;refer=asia\">the Prime Minister of Malaysia<\/a>, just like he did to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pipka.org\/blog\/1086899006\">Australian Prime Minister<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While some view this as a good bargaining leverage to use against Microsoft, keep in mind <em>lock-in is never a good leverage<\/em>. OSIA have some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osia.net.au\/media_releases\/osia_suggests_some_discussion_topics_for_bill_gates_forthcoming_meeting_with_australia_s_prime_minister\">press release<\/a> suggested topics to talk about, no one (body) from Malaysia has come up with something suitable to let there be better bargaining power for Badawi. So now, the open source world will have to hope he&#8217;s been given sane advice and doesn&#8217;t buy into it.<\/p>\n<p>And its confirmed eh, Linux is a <strong>threat to Microsoft<\/strong>. They know it, and they&#8217;re going to fight it with all their might. Users, developers, fellow advocates, we must unite, and only then can we stand. If you&#8217;re attending an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/19\/switch\">event<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesoftware.org.mk\/freesoftwareflood\/?l=english\">flood them with free software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20The%20goat%20comes%20to%20town&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F06%2F28%2Fthe-goat-comes-to-town&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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