Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Oct 2005 19:32 UTC
The Microsoft exec in charge of Office has dismissed last week's tie-up between Sun and Google as allusion rather than substance. "That announcement didn't have anything," Chris Capossela, corporate vice president Information Worker Product Management Group of Microsoft told a crowd of reporters last week. "It had something about a toolbar and Java Runtime, and it alluded to a potential thing some time in the future. OpenOffice isn't hard to get, just go to their website and download the software."
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"ROFL.
Microsoft using OSS technologies? You're kidding right? Maybe they got inspired by some of them, but proove me they are using it directly. Don't tell me that the "less privileges" mechanism Microsoft plan to use in Vista is OSS technology. This is just an idea, a way of doing it. They are not using the Linux implementation for example.
On the other side, we all know that many Linux alternatives are rip-off. Mono comes to my mind, the Wine project in some way, OpenOffice as well (they imitated MS Office alot), ect.
You're spreading FUD."
Well someone has to punch a hole on the monopoly board dont they?
Q: How can Linux runs apps that are only used on Windows?
A: Write a Windows layer
Q: How can Linux/OSS make a application that Microsoft monopolies with a non standard format?
A: Make OpenOffice and use a format that every other program can use.
Q: How can Linux/OSS get programers who are used a .net to do Application in Linux/OSS?
A: Make a Opensource version of .net called Mono so they can develope applications not just on on platform.
Have Microsoft brainwashed you that bad?, yes just liek the other zombee's