Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model
Microsoft
Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 12, @03:28PM
from the faint-praise-and-damnation dept.
geoff313 writes " As previously mentioned here, Microsoft's new wave of FUD has begun to arrive. This time it is courtesy of Bradley Tipp, Microsoft's UK national systems engineer, who spoke at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen. In this article from ZDNet UK, he is quoted as saying that 'Linux is great' and 'there are a lot of things we should learn from open source' but then is quick to point out that 'We haven't talked to a single user who has said they're using [open source] because it's better.' Another Microsoft employee was quoted as saying 'At least if Linux takes off, their viruses will propagate and we won't be seen as the bad guys any more.' I for one am happy to see that they are taking their new interest in security seriously, and I'm sure you all are too. Most interesting is the assertion that the decision by Red Hat to end support for its free distribution and Novell's aquisition of SUSE marks not only the death of free software, but actually is a validation of Microsoft's business model. Does anyone besides Microsoft see these events as the end of Free software?" I use Free software because it's better; they just didn't ask.
ah ah !
moi j'utilise du free software, Linux, bash, KDE, Mozilla
PARCE C'EST MIEUX ! .....
jamais pu encaissé le "C:\Program Files\..." au lieu de /bin et l'absence de liens symboliques dans les systèmes de fichiers FAT ou NTFS
jamais pu admettre de pas avoir accès à certains fichiers protégés par le système
jamais admis que ça crashe 10 fois par jour
toujours pesté contre les popups des pages Web
etc. etc.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/12/2026218.shtml?tid=109&tid(...)
Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model
Microsoft
Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 12, @03:28PM
from the faint-praise-and-damnation dept.
geoff313 writes " As previously mentioned here, Microsoft's new wave of FUD has begun to arrive. This time it is courtesy of Bradley Tipp, Microsoft's UK national systems engineer, who spoke at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen. In this article from ZDNet UK, he is quoted as saying that 'Linux is great' and 'there are a lot of things we should learn from open source' but then is quick to point out that 'We haven't talked to a single user who has said they're using [open source] because it's better.' Another Microsoft employee was quoted as saying 'At least if Linux takes off, their viruses will propagate and we won't be seen as the bad guys any more.' I for one am happy to see that they are taking their new interest in security seriously, and I'm sure you all are too. Most interesting is the assertion that the decision by Red Hat to end support for its free distribution and Novell's aquisition of SUSE marks not only the death of free software, but actually is a validation of Microsoft's business model. Does anyone besides Microsoft see these events as the end of Free software?" I use Free software because it's better; they just didn't ask.
ah ah !
moi j'utilise du free software, Linux, bash, KDE, Mozilla
PARCE C'EST MIEUX ! .....
jamais pu encaissé le "C:\Program Files\..." au lieu de /bin et l'absence de liens symboliques dans les systèmes de fichiers FAT ou NTFS
jamais pu admettre de pas avoir accès à certains fichiers protégés par le système
jamais admis que ça crashe 10 fois par jour
toujours pesté contre les popups des pages Web
etc. etc.
le free software C'EST MIEUX ! .....