Hey! Maybe he's right.
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| dinotrac Feb 04, 2005 11:00 AM EDT |
Let us not forget that Mr. Gates may be the world's foremost expert on software that doesn't play well with others. |
| PaulFerris Feb 04, 2005 3:44 PM EDT |
Oh, you're missing the irony here:
"Additionally, the open source development approach encourages the creation of many permutations of the same type of software application, which could add implementation and testing overhead to interoperability efforts," How about reality outright disproving his frickin' point?!? I have yet to find an open source program that doesn't play well with prior versions of software -- usually OSS/Free Software programs are exelent at maintaining file format compatibility -- there's no motivation to make things non-interoperable. but who's forgotten all of the languages microsoft has spawned over the years -each version not running well on prior -- how about Word file formats that force an upgrade due to some arcane reason (oh, it *wouldn't* be because we are motivated to do that just to force customers to purchase new versions of software they already owned). No, the argument goes to the contrary -- examine the reasons he things OSS is bad, and in every category Microsoft has prior offended it's customers in exactlty the ways he fingers OSS as being guilty. What a con-man. |
| dinotrac Feb 04, 2005 5:52 PM EDT |
Now, Pauly, you're never going to get anywhere in this world by sticking to the facts. Perception is 90% of reality and the other 10% doesn't matter. Just remember: Bill Gates would never lie, he simply refuses to let the truth be victimized by the facts. |
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