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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?"
First thing they must learn is the correct usage of begging the question. Sheesh
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
I'm usually pro-Microsoft, but MS building the GAP.com site drove me nuts. Don't they know that GAP just like Nike uses slave labor?
This is not truly offtopic--did anyone else notice the italics in the story title? I've never noticed this capability before, is it something that's been around and simply ignored or is it a new feature? I'm quite curious, anyone who knows, if they could respond here.
Moderators--Offtopic would be a waste of time and resources. The italicizing occured for this story, so it is on-topic.
Thank you,
~Chazzf
No statement is true, not even this one.
And if there were no Nike employing 25,000 people in that "peasant" camp, there would be 25,000 less jobs and 25,000 * meager wage less money being brought into that country and to those people.
Just *my* thoughts.
Let's see if a 14 year old girl is working in vietnam 14 hours for $2.00 then everybody who makes more will one day be unemployed.
Probably you don't care because your job is not at risk but do you really think moving manufacturing to third world countries and the resultant unemployment in the US has no consequences to you?
Besides what makes you think corporations will stop there? They already make use of prison labor in the US and the US has the higest rate of incarsaration in the world. It would be trivial for corporatiosn to push for draconian laws making jaywalking a life offense and then having a massive pool of slaves ready to provide labor for free. To a corporation there is nothing sweeter then a nation full of slaves.
War is necrophilia.
No I am making the argument that in addition to being exploitive it also harms the US economy. One does not preclude the other.
War is necrophilia.
Traditional versus Innovative, Closed versus Open,
I don't see the link between Innovative and Open Source. Most of the innovative work done in software engineering is done in company-funded researchlabs, not by Open Source hackers.
Never underestimate the relief of true separation of Religion and State.
...for a Klondike bar?
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