Linked by David Adams on Tue 5th Aug 2008 21:20 UTC, submitted by JCooper
Microsoft . . . complained in its annual report that it was facing increasing pressure from open source companies. It claims they are stealing its ideas and benefiting from its intellectual property.
"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." Also see analysis at Microsoft Watch.
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2005-08-15
I thought the open source developers always advocated that complementary services and options were the means for them to gain money, and the cost-effectiveness of open source and open standards would help make it profitable to rely on services only. Microsoft was one of the companies always claiming that such a business model could never work... whining that it does work isn't really gonna help them further. The open source communities were always open about this strategy... So what point are they trying to make???