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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"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead".
Maybe not for servers (well, NTFS has had stable journaling and meta-data for a long time), but for mulitmedia (my own concern), noone in the OSS world has come with something close to DirectShow. And even though it's not perfect it allows some things that would be hard to do otherwise.
Why is there an open SSL library and no open codec library ?! (with an interface usable on every OS). If you look at mplayer, gstreamer and other players, you'll see that they all want to make their own thing with them own API, and "ignoring the Microsoft lead" is exactly what they all do...