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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Was Burger King or Wendy's arrogant to think they could compete with McDonald's? Instead of recognizing that McDonald's had superior marketing and fatshare, they sought to reinvent the wheel, er burger.
Obviously with the success of McDonalds, it must be high quality given the overwhelming number of stores and burgers sold. (Billions and Billions served!)
These people must be crazy to create a burger and let people decide that they want it their way. They'll loose market share because their sauce code is too open, too.
Why do people think the Microsoft way is the only way? Unix people are used to many solutions of varied benefits and drawbacks.