IIRC MS were the good guys (tm) a while back rescuing the public from the evil (tm) IBM monopoly......how long is it before we are in an episode of <insert big corp linux distro> gains a large monopoly and the cycle rotates again .......I wonder who will be the next "savour" .......
Maybe we should be focusing more on keeping Linux as it is at the moment rather than pissing around getting MS to play ball ......I dont mean "as is" in the way of being a hobbists OS more than general consumers ....but we certainly dont want to see it getting to the stage where it has been bulldozed by to much corperate interest ,and external interests by the hobbists and current external developers are ignored ...... IMHO MS have already shot themselves in the foot by lack of moving with the times .....and at the end of the day this isnt an impossibility for linux if we get to much corperate interest deciding on the direction Linux is heading ..... Just my 2c Dale. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesley Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: Meet With MS: Was: RE: Just for Rodger... > FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each Other? > http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/05/08/1049218.shtml?tid=126&tid=154&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201&tid=95 > > Because Microsoft is making an attempt to _seem_ polite and friendly these > days. It's realized that bad PR is PR, but it's negative and sets people > against you. Too much bad PR and people will stop believing what you say, > merely because you said it. > > And that would impact quite heavily on the bottom line. > > So by opening up the source without restriction, they would be not only making > interesting noises, they would be backing them up with action. > > Wesley Parish > > On Sun, 09 May 2004 00:52, you wrote: > > On Sat, 08 May 2004 22:40, you wrote: > > > When is Microsoft going to release the full, non-encumbered specs for > > > WinML, their Office2003 file specification, for the purpose of > > > compatibility with OpenOffice.org and AbiWord? > > > > > > Has Microsoft ever considered the brownie points it might garner by > > > releasing under the MIT/X11 license, the Microsoft-owned source code to > > > Win NT 4.0, Win95, and Office97? > > > > > > Is Microsoft going to license its patents that directly affect Mono and > > > Samba, on the same basis as IBM with Linux? Ie, blanket coverage. > > > > Good questions. I have one for you - why would MS do any of the above? > > All ethics and ideologies aside - if you were an MS shareholder, would you > > want them to do any of the above? Brownie points do not always yeild > > profit, short term or long term. > > > > Yuri > > -- > Wesley Parish > * * * > Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish > * * * > Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" > You ask, "What is the most important thing?" > Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." > I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." > > >
