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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?"
Just what have you been smoking, troll?
Die.
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
They will be assimilated.
what an idiotic question. The only option available to Bill Gates is exile.
bite me
you guys kind of screwed us over with your outing our website's dirty secret (BSD). honestly, we are now fresh out of ideas. i mean, besides a flashy website, what else can we do? please give us some ideas, cause we really don't know what else to do. if we can't crush you, who will?
and if you don't want to contribute to your own destruction, consider the fact that this is unisys' last ditch effort to stay a player in major markets. if they go under, some techies will lose their jobs. if they go under, a part of computing history will die, all because of some open source fanatics. do you want that to happen? huh? do you? we also have three small woodland animals we are willing to kill if you do not give in to our demands. and we will throw pennies at orphans. come on, help us out. play fair!
Sincerely,
microsoft/unisys
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?
GPL OSS M$ Winblows Microshaft!!! LoL! Linux rulez!!!!1
Yet it is done this way, and it wastes my time. Good grief!
99%
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?
Edith Keeler Must Die