open source software bandwagon? Did a pig just fly past my window?
Judge for yourself with this article over @ Silicon.com . . .
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by DJGM » Fri 14 Nov, 2003 10:55 pm
Has Microsoft given up on the anti-Linux FUDfests, and jumped on the
open source software bandwagon? Did a pig just fly past my window?
Judge for yourself with this article over @ Silicon.com . . .
open source software bandwagon? Did a pig just fly past my window?
Judge for yourself with this article over @ Silicon.com . . .
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Funny you should say that..
by jubalj » Fri 14 Nov, 2003 11:34 pm
nope, MS hasnt given up.. its just another attack.. especially these sections:
[quote]Linux having a 50 per cent market share would be good for Microsoft. "At least if Linux takes off, their viruses will propagate and we won’t be seen as the bad guys any moreâ€
Red Hat’s decision to end support for its free software and the Novell-SuSE link-up have put the last nail in the coffin of the free software model, the Redmond behemoth believes - even going so far as to speculate that the move from free to paid-for open source software is a validation of Microsoft’s way of doing business and the only way the open source movement can survive.
[quote]Linux having a 50 per cent market share would be good for Microsoft. "At least if Linux takes off, their viruses will propagate and we won’t be seen as the bad guys any moreâ€
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by DJGM » Sat 15 Nov, 2003 12:02 am
It must've been a pig that flew past my window then!
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linux will overcome the FUD
by jubalj » Sat 15 Nov, 2003 6:50 pm
FUD is bad, but i think, irrespective of FUD, opensource software will defintely prevail eventually.. Opensouce is perhaps more like an avalance, building up momentum as time goes by. I'd say that in the next 5-10 years 10% of computers would be running an opensouce OS and in 10-20 years possibliy around 30%.. And in 50 years when people look back at the history of software, opensource will be seen as a major turning point!
pretty bold huh? considering that most ppl live to eat their own predictions about computers..
On the otherhand, its cool to know that unlike most great changes all this will happen in our lifetimes, it was only ~20 short yrs ago that Mr Gates sat in an IBM board room and made history..
Thus spake the [foolish] optimist,
Jubal
pretty bold huh? considering that most ppl live to eat their own predictions about computers..
On the otherhand, its cool to know that unlike most great changes all this will happen in our lifetimes, it was only ~20 short yrs ago that Mr Gates sat in an IBM board room and made history..
Thus spake the [foolish] optimist,
Jubal
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by Mandrake » Sat 15 Nov, 2003 10:01 pm
Open source won't take over totally for quite some time, and Microsoft isn't hoarding cash for no reason. They WILL need that $51bn USD one day, they know that all well and good. They're fully taking advatage of being as profitable as ever, I don't blame them.
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