Haha. It's so easy to say "we can have everything Linux has" when it's
open for all to see... Of course you can! It has been given to you!
And futhermore, there aren't really any secretive features that you
don't know about until the software is released--unless you count the
Lindows fiasco.
J. Milgram wrote:
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.
