Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Mar 2007 22:07 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Software behemoth Microsoft could be one of the biggest losers from proposed license changes to the Linux operating system unveiled Wednesday. That's a possible outcome of updates to the license pushed by the FSF. The FSF wants to make mutually exclusive pacts such as the Novell-Microsoft open-source agreement a violation of the next iteration of the GNU GPL, the license that governs Linux use. "It is unfortunate that the FSF is attempting to use the GPLv3 to prevent future collaboration among industry leaders to benefit customers," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's vice president of intellectual property and licensing.
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>>And this is where I'm not a fan of free enterprise as some have coined it. This is selective support from Microsoft, it fears GNU/Linux, so it will do absolutely everything in its power to make sure that interoperability on the GNU/Linux platform is hindered.
Except the 'selective support' as you put it is nothing new or unique to Microsoft or computer development of the past two and a half decades. CROSS PLATFORM is, at least in the home computer market, the 'new kid' on the block.
How all the programs you bemoan only existing for Windows, well, only existing for Windows is not exactly unusual in the computer industry... I never expected VIC Basic programs to run on an Apple 2, I never expected C=64 programs to run on my Coco, I never expected TRS-DOS programs to run on MS-DOS, I never expected Appleworks and Hypercard to run in Windows, and I most certainly don't expect Microsoft Office to waste the manpower and resources to run native on linux.
IF they were so obsessed with quashing the upstart as you claim, they'd have sought legal action against Wine, Crossover Office, ReactOS and Mono long ago.
Besides, they probably looked at what happened when WordPerfect tried it, and said "oh, hell no."
Writing cross-platform programs is not easy, and usually involves either rewriting the program once for each platform (the traditional method and how Zork was ported to every platform in the '80s), relying on API wrappers like QT and GTK+ or using a interpreted or JIT language such as Basic or Java... the latter methods usually resulting in buggy slow programs that don't mesh smoothly with their host OS. Different operating systems means different ways of sending and recieving messages and interacting with files, hardware and the user.
If it didn't, they wouldn't be different operating systems.
You can see it in Firefox and Thunderbird with the "Memory Feature" and absurd bloat, or OpenOffice using it's own font renderer so it kerns text like a sweetly retarded epileptic crack addict. Programs like Limewire and Morbeus chewing >90% cpu for a task Shareaza can do at only 3%.
>> Did IQs just f--king drop?
You do keep posting and name calling. I imagine a number of people probably feel dumber for having read your posts.
Oh, besides.
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!!!
It had to be said.
Edited 2007-03-31 00:32