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What Should Microsoft's Open Source Strategy Be?
JWinterboy asks: "I'm guessing that everyone here has a valid criticism of Microsoft's attacks on, and approach towards the Open Source model. To me, that begs the question of what we think would be an "appropriate" reaction from Microsoft towards the Open Source model. It doesn't have a service arm, so IBM's approach isn't really viable. At the same time, non-service related business models haven't fared very well.
What would we like to see Microsoft do? How can it work with the Open Source community, leverage its resources, and still make a buck?"
Yeah, I'll be waiting for that to happen right after George Bush gets nominated for a Nobel peace prize!
I stole this Sig
The issue with MS is not that it has closed source, but its disgusting business practices.
Will going Opensource mean that MS would stop exploiting their molopoly to push badly designed software and bully the software industry? I don't think so.
In fact I'm glad that Ms keeps its source closed. Going open would just expand their control/influence.
who cares? Seriously, I may not be politically correct for saying this, but if some unemployed guy in some_random_country will be happy for 1/1000th of what Joe Sixpack wants for some_random_mindless_fucking_job, why do we feel the need to insist that "our way is right"?
I'm not "corporation fan" by any stretch, but frankly a lot of the "they get paid pennies over there I tell ya!" whining I hear sounds like sour grapes from folks whose union priced themselves out of a job HERE, and are mad because someone at said corporation realized "running a sewing machine is a mindless fucking job that requires no education and very little expensive training, and you don't need to pay some union snot $25.40 per hour to do it, and then have to pay him more and more each year just because he's been there longer doing the same mindless chore longer than the guy next to him".
Uh? What kind of nonsense is this? MS should just fuck off and die. No, wait. YOU should just fuck off and die. MS can just fuck off. Really. Explain to me, why should MS have an open source strategy?
Pushin' 'n dealin', shovin' 'n stealin'
No, I tried XP. I plugged in my new box, put in a partitioning floppy and powered up. I told it that I wanted to resize the 60G partition so that I could add a 20G Linux partition. I'm not being greedy; what's wrong with using 1/3 of my new drive for my own uses? As usual, Microsoft wouldn't play well with others. It told me that every last bit of that 60G partition was vital to it. Linux is vital to me- it is how I prefer to use my computer. Windows 98 never gave me problems with resizing partitions, so that looks like another "innovation." They embraced my HD and extended to cover the whole thing. Microsoft told me that the only way I could use my computer properly was by removing Microsoft's product. It wasn't my idea. I was willing to give it the lion's share of my HD, but it wanted a monopoly.
Where does this "like Mozilla" crap come from? If Netscape had Open sourced Netscape, then Mozilla would have been at exactly the same "useable" state from day one. I'm not talking about crippleware, about an OSS clone of the real app, I mean releasing the damn source. I mean I should be able to install my XP or compile it, whichever I prefer. I've got a license to run Windows. What's wrong with also having the freedom to run a Windows that works? If they're "likely to end up being pushed to just scrap it all and rewrite," then where do they get the balls to charge prople good money for such an apparently brain-damaged product?
I tried XP. It didn't work. If any of their previous "latest and greatest" offerings hadn't sucked, I might give this one another shot. I've got an XP CD you can have cheap. Uh ... hello?
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
The reason the troll is offtopic is because it was written before the topic existed.
NT, moron.
Oh, and remember that the apostrophe is possessive, you were using a plural. The plural of 'business' is 'businesses' - 8/10 for effort though.