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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2006-02-25
I don't agree with them. A lion's share of MS software was based on copying or purchasing others (UI, spreadsheets, wordprocessors, Servers, DB, and the list goes on).
Note that I'm not saying it's wrong or bad, that's natural. But complaining about what got you here in the 1st place ?
In Hebrew we have a saying: "הפוסל במומו פוסל", which translates (according to wikipedia) to: "The disqualifier disqualifies based on his own fault".