Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Apr 2007 16:50 UTC
It's been a while since the latest Microsoft-should-open-source-Windows article, so SJVN felt compelled to write one. "Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver the goods?"
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RE[5]: Bill gives enough money on charity, dont you thi
by nberardi on Sun 15th Apr 2007 00:17
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I don't remember ever posting that I'm against research. Maybe you should think twice about your view of what I write. In fact all editions of UNIX upto and including Seventh Edition were research - and THEY were open source.
But where did the money come from for that research. Yes companies who's practices weren't open. I believe AT&T was the father of UNIX, and they are hardly close to an open company. So don't get up on your high horse and pretend to be above everybody, you are using software that may be open, but the research was bought by the proprietary software you now speak against.
RE[6]: Bill gives enough money on charity, dont you thi
by twenex on Sun 15th Apr 2007 00:27
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But where did the money come from for that research. Yes companies who's practices weren't open. I believe AT&T was the father of UNIX, and they are hardly close to an open company. So don't get up on your high horse and pretend to be above everybody, you are using software that may be open, but the research was bought by the proprietary software you now speak against.
And when did it all start to go wrong for UNIX? When it was made proprietary?
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Is that the really the only way you know how to argue by twisting what I say to fit your view of the world. "
Nice try. Nevertheless, the insinuation that open source software robs developers of profits stands there in black and white.
Oh, but there's a big difference. Open Source depends on standing on the soldiers of giants; closed source centres on reinvention of the wheel.
I fail to see the relevance of this.
Actually, open source would be a lot better off if Microsoft were not the company it is. Sun also is not blameless in the proprietary technology department, even in software.
I think you will find that the first sentence above invalidates the second.
I don't remember ever posting that I'm against research. Maybe you should think twice about your view of what I write. In fact all editions of UNIX upto and including Seventh Edition were research - and THEY were open source.
So Microsoft actually made one contribution to the world outside itself, did it? Wow. That overshadows all the effort they have spent destroying competitors. Not.