Interview with Microsoft's "general manager of platform strategy", Martin Taylor.
http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/clicks?c=319902-30693432&brand=techrepublic&ds=5&fs=0 Some classic FUD in there, including these gems: "When you license technology as a consumer or business, you should be comfortable that you're protected from patent (or) copyright...claims from anyone. That should be a core fundamental principle of licensing software." (does Microsoft ever indemnify customers for this sort of thing?) and more amazing: "From a competitive standpoint, take Linux, for example. There's really nothing innovative today that Linux does that we can't do. There's no new feature or new design that can be done only on Linux, and not on Microsoft. So I don't worry too much about Linux and open-source projects out-innovating us" Who would have imagined, ten years ago, a Microsoft executive protesting that their stuff was just as good as Linux. What will the world look like, ten years from now, assuming we haven't all killed each other.
