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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Did you forget to attach your resume to that last post? That was all "Mr. Company-man like".
Yeah, Microsoft is _really_ hurting for software engineers and capital, aren't they. Well, maybe they are.....but it's Google's fault that it's apparently a much better company to work for.
Let me tell you what's good with having open source.....it forces you software engineers to get off your ass, leave your comfort zone, and do something innovative. Case in point, if there was no Firefox, we'd still be stuck on that POS IE6 because MS was in no way throwing any resources towards that 'product' (and I use the term loosely).
I like to think of OSS as the Punk Rock to proprietary software's Top 40 Radio. Creamy, polished, and bloated Top 40 gets old and stale, after so many years, and it takes Punk to come back and bite it in the ass and make music interesting again. Everything is cyclical.