Sonia Hamilton wrote:
Slightly OT and old news, but interesting to see that Micro$oft is still
rating OSS/Linux as their number one threat in their most recent SEC
Quarterly Filing:
"... In recent years, certain “open source” software business models
have evolved into a growing challenge to our license-based software
model. Open source commonly refers to software whose source code is
subject to a license allowing it to be modified, combined with other
software and redistributed, subject to restrictions set forth in the
license. A number of commercial firms compete with us using an open
source business model by modifying and then distributing open source
software to end users at nominal cost and earning revenue on
complementary services and products. These firms do not have to bear the
full costs of research and development for the software. A prominent
example of open source software is the Linux operating system...."
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312507225854/d10q.htm#toc29077_11
There is an enormous amount of information available under
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/
There are PDF docs detailing disagreements between the IRS and MS with requests for
explanations and all sorts of things. It would be nice to grep for "Linux" and "Open
Source" in that entire directory. Also under
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/00/ there is quite a lot.
Though directory browsing for http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/ is not
allowed.
Mike
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