Ex-Microsoftie says free software will kill Redmond

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 23, 2009 3:23 AM EDT
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Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years, says proprietary software made Microsoft one of the most successful companies, but is a model destined to fail. Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, either. The mantra Curtis repeats throughout his book After the Software Wars: proprietary software is holding us back as a society.

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