Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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I don't see why people in the open source community care at all about Microsoft. First off, they don't have to. Microsoft is a business and as such must turn a profit. It competes for those profits against other companies such as Netscape. Because of that, Microsoft needs to be concerned about whether or not their products are competitive with OSS. The day Microsoft fails to turn a profit is the day it dies. The day the FSF fails to turn a profit would be just like any other day. Thus, open source/free software will be around long after MS. The community should realize this and focus on what it does best: provide a valuable, stable, and reliable code base that all users can access and use for their computing. Let the corporations try to compete and turn profits. Whenever one of them gets killed in their game of monopoly, there is always the potential for their code to be donated to the OSS community. That could very well be the fate of Windows also. As technologies and markets change, we will see the long term advantages of the open source model more clearly.