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| techiem2 Nov 09, 2008 8:47 PM EDT |
Quoting:"We believe that enterprises and vendors should have a choice of software development methodology, and open source is one such choice." They forgot "as long as they pay us for the platform to run it on and pay for plenty of access licenses". |
| tuxchick Nov 09, 2008 8:52 PM EDT |
And patent licenses. And as long as they don't have to contribute anything back. |
| jdixon Nov 09, 2008 9:42 PM EDT |
> open source is one such choice. Unstated: "Unless it's the GPL of course. That's not an option." |
| vainrveenr Nov 10, 2008 12:31 AM EDT |
... and again the Borg ship draws nigh : "We are Borg. You (Open Source) will be interoperated upon. GPL-resistance is futile" |
| garymax Nov 10, 2008 4:26 AM EDT |
Quoting:Microsoft 'Not Against' Open Source And the wolf wasn't against little red riding hood either... |
| tracyanne Nov 10, 2008 5:11 AM EDT |
Microsoft has no problems with Open Source Software, what they have a problem with is Free Open Source Software. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 10, 2008 6:17 AM EDT |
Microsoft doesn't have a problem with FOSS as much as they have a problem with Linux. They're trying to kick Linux out from under the stack and make it all run on Windows. That just strengthens my belief that Mono is not about luring Windows programmers onto Linux but the other way around. |
| hkwint Nov 10, 2008 4:04 PM EDT |
Quoting:Microsoft has no problems with Open Source Software In fact they do. That's why they rather paid €497M than opening only their protocols. Quoting:That just strengthens my belief that Mono is not about luring Windows programmers onto Linux but the other way around. Did read Microsofts 'secret' document "Power Evangelism"? It's still on Ken's a.k.a. Helios' server. http://lobby4linux.com/documents/MicrosoftWar.pdf Kind of old, but the mentality is still there. Somewhere across those pages you will read multiple times that platforms are more important than selling Windows. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 10, 2008 5:36 PM EDT |
Quoting:In fact they do. That's why they rather paid €497M than opening only their protocols. But those docs had only one purpose: make other operating systems (a.k.a. Linux) work better with MS protocols. |
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