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More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-entertaining-as-he-ever-was dept.

Cally writes "Further embarrasingly lame FUD from Craig Mundie of Microsoft. This time, he claims the GPL is at odds with 'commercialization' of software, without which the government gets a smaller tax take. Looks like he's really talking to legislators there ... He also knocks the Sun-led Liberty Alliance Passport SSO service as 'this notion that the world should be offered an alternative.' An alternative?"

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  1. Re:Well, honestly, for once, he's right.... by Bullschmidt · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Actually, I bet many have (outside of the usual Redhat/Cygnus/etc group). See by USING (not selling), they save money, which in economic terms, is pretty much the same as making money (since it reduces costs, the net income is greater). If company A switches to all GPL open source software, while still developing their own code in a proprietary manner, they can save bundles of cash, which means they net more.

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  2. Re:Alternatives by letxa2000 · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    It was a fine analogy.

    The fact you have a political axe to grind doesn't reduce the value of the analogy provided.

    Take your political, PC-based trolling elsewhere.

  3. Re:Microsoft is concerned about Taxes? by flacco · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Microsoft employees paid huge amounts of income tax, the sale of their products generated huge amounts of sales tax and their business operations are huge tax base (property, licenses, etc.) The revenue generated for the government from MS far exceeds that coming from VA Linux/Software, corporate tax or no.

    I DON"T GIVE A RAT'S ASS. Microsoft does not deserve to exist because it's a tax generation mechanism. Companies do not exist to generate tax. They exist to provide value to others. GPL software is making some commercial comodity software obsolete. DEAL WITH IT.

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  4. Re:GPL by Amster1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, I prefer BSD-style licenses. They're considerably less restrictive than the GPL. I like to write code under BSD licenses, and I use BSD-licensed code by preference. If you're doing anything other than dorking around for fun, like, say, trying to make a living writing new software, the GPL is a pain in the ass.