Cowboys

In an article about the upcoming Windows XP SP2, Microsoft’s general manager of worldwide partner marketing said this about the linux / open-source movement:

Microsoft has a "structured delivery system to make sure our customers and our partners are getting exactly the technology they need to drive forward, whereas in that other space it is an unstructured cowboy atmosphere."

I guess he must be a "general manager of worldwide partner marketing," because he sure isn’t preaching to Americans.  We don’t view "cowboy" as an insult here, tranzi epithets notwithstanding.

In pseudo-related news, it worked, just as al Qaeda said it would.  Get attacked, give up.  Let’s hope our other real allies demonstrate a little more mettle than this as the war continues.