On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Kristiono Setyadi wrote:
> > Koq saya merasa wajar2 saja kalau Gates boleh menikmati hasil jerih payah
> > dia.
> > Walaupun mungkin kadang2 cara yang ditempuh tidak benar, tapi toh namanya
> > usaha. Saya ngga munafik untuk mengatakan jika "suatu saat" berada dalam
>
> Mungkin kebanyakan hampir setiap orang menginginkan seperti Bill Gates.
> Menjadi kaya dengan hasil jerih payahnya sendiri. Siapa yang nggak mau??
>
> Jadi saya rasa orang-orang yang tertarik untuk berkecimpung di dunia
> open-source itu adalah orang-orang yang benar-benar mencintai komputer.
Kalau cerita gini harus kembali ke sejarah jaman awalnya mikrokomputer
(jaman Altair dsb). Saat itu relatif "scene" pemrograman seperti open
source, orang saling bertukar coding. (ada club computer terkenal, di
mana orang seperti Steven Jobs, dll sering nongkrong).
Ketika itu Gates menjual BASIC-nya yang ditulis dg Alan Kay (pakai
fasilitas kampus.h.eheh) banyak orang main copy tanpa beli, hingga
akhirnya dia menulis sebuah surat yang terkenal "A letter to ....." yang
isinya meminta temen-temenya tak mengcopy software, dan beralasan bahwa
hanya dg mendapat duit orang akan kreatif.
Tentunya tanggapan orang-orang bermacam-macam, ada yang kesel (karena
mereka tahu Gates mengembangkan softwarenya dg cara tukar-tukaran soure
code juga). Nah mulai saat itulah populer software komputer "dijual"
tanpa source code. (Saya sempat baca suratnya Bill Gates salinannya ada di
Museum Komputer Paderborn).
Nah dalam mengembangkan produk MS-pun Gates banyak menerapkan strategi
"beli software orang, dan kembangkan, paket, lalu jual". Berikut ini
cuplikan dari situs ttg itu.
http://www.afn.org/~afn51445/microsoft.html
Presenting the Microsoft Hall of Innovation
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Close Combat
Popular game purchased from Atomic Games
Flight Simulator
Purchased from the Bruce Artwick Organisation
Age of Empires
Collabaration with Ensemble studios(Gopal R S)
FrontPage
Microsoft's HTML editor was purchased from Vermeer Technologies in 1996
FoxPro
This database application came along with Microsoft's purchase
of Fox Software in 1986
Internet Explorer
Desperate to play catch-up in the fast-moving Internet world Microsoft
licensed code from Spyglass Inc one of the two licensees of the
original Mosaic code base in 1995 and called it MSIE Microsoft
then proceeded to distribute MSIE for free denying Spyglass substantial
royalties for their key contribution to the product
MS-DOS
The original Microsoft cash cow this CPM clone then called Q-DOS
was purchased from the Seattle Computer Company in 1981 Microsoft then
proceeded to thwart Seattle Computer's license rights to the product
The tiny company sued Microsoft and prevailed in court
Object Linking Environment OLE
Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement
code portions of OLE which is also the heart of Microsoft's ActiveX
PowerPoint
This presentation software package was renamed and re branded
after Microsoft's purchase of Forethought Inc in 1987
SQL Server
This important database product is based on code purchased from
Sybase in 1988
Visual Basic
Ruby the foundation for Microsoft's highly important Visual
Basic product was purchased from Cooper Software in 1991
Visual C
Microsoft purchased the Lattice C code compiler which became
Visual C Microsoft's software development environment
Visual SourceSafe
Purchased from OneTree Software Shortly after OneTree's
SourceSafe was released Microsoft preannounced a similar application
called Microsoft Delta which failed to sell Microsoft then purchased
OneTree and renamed SourceSafe as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
Windows
Technologies used in Windows multitasking came to Microsoft with
their purchase of Dynamical Systems in 1986 Portions of the interface
were licensed from Apple Computer also in 1986
XENIX
Microsoft's version of Unix was actually written under contract
by the Santa Cruz Operation(SCO)
The Intellimouse, which Goldtouch is now suing for patent
violations over. Seems Goldtouch had a meeting with M$ and tried to sell
them their ergonomic mouse technology. M$ didn't buy, but 6 months later
released a mouse which looked remarkably simular...
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Hal di atas sah-sah saja dalam bisnis, yang jadi masalah adalah kalau MS
ingin membuat prouknya "Open Source" maka artinya:
- Dia harus menyelesaikan dulu masalah lisensi terhadap pemilik code asli
ataupun persh ke 3 yang membantu mengerjakan code-nya. Karena tidak
semua copy rigth-nya dimiliki oleh MS. Contohnya SGI untuk melepas XFS
membutuhkan 1 tahun lebih untuk menyelesaikan masalah ini
- Dia harus membersihkan dulu code-nya sehingga tidak
"malu-maluin". Karena kecenderungan pengembangan di MS, sering sekali
terjadi kondisi tak modular, dan duplikasi.
IMW
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