M Harris wrote:
On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:20, M Harris wrote:
Well, the other shoe has dropped. The leopard in Redmond is really
desperate...
MICRO4OFT'S OPEN SOURCE FETISH
This is another take on the same theme... this guy blogs that M$ will never
sue because they can't afford it... read his three reasons why. This guy's
ire is really up...
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/making_sense_of.html
The comment I like is:
"Of course, the funniest thing in all this is the alleged violation of
the "garbage in, garbage out" rule. Microsoft, whose software is
notoriously buggy, believes that the open soure community has somehow
stolen that buggy code...and made much less buggy products out of it:
The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of
such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's
patents. And as a mature company facing unfavorable market trends
and fearsome competitors like Google, Microsoft is pulling no
punches: It wants royalties. If the company gets its way, free
software won't be free anymore.
If at all true, Microsoft should be begging the open source community to
teach it how to spin gold from Microsoft's straw, rather than
castigating it for alleged theft. Microsoft knows how to put a pretty
face on a pig, but it has yet to figure out how to fix the pig."
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