Posted by: Anonymous
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on August 05, 2008 05:21 AM
I've argued at various times and in various places that a good part of Microsoft's problem is that it doesn't know whether it's a product company or a platform aka infrastructure company. This comes through in the vicious way they treat competitors aka customers who now have something Microsoft wants - a certain segment of the market.
So my litmus test for Microsoft's acceptability as a member of the Free Open Source Software communities, is its releasing the source trees of certain valuable parts of its stack under the GPL version 3. To wit, various versions of MS Windows, ancient and modern, MS Office, ancient and modern, and MS Visual [PL] Express plus various development tools, ancient and modern.
I think their confusion though, will sink them before they get their courage up.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 118.90.74.62] on August 05, 2008 05:21 AMSo my litmus test for Microsoft's acceptability as a member of the Free Open Source Software communities, is its releasing the source trees of certain valuable parts of its stack under the GPL version 3. To wit, various versions of MS Windows, ancient and modern, MS Office, ancient and modern, and MS Visual [PL] Express plus various development tools, ancient and modern.
I think their confusion though, will sink them before they get their courage up.
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