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Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1
geekinexile writes "Bloomberg is running this Microsoft vs. Linux article as a top story on the Bloomberg system. Not so notable for what it says about Linux, but rather for the fact that the financial community is starting to actually get open source."
Ugh, enough
sure they get it, but after almost ten years of windooze they can nearly reboot their pc's without a call to the helpdesk, I don't see them as a "switch" market, rather a sit around and talk about something new and not do anything about it market. Of course I would not be speaking to any of them reading this post...
That is why Linux will win no matter what Microsoft does.
Said after a day of wrestling with SQL Server 2000.
I totally agree with you. The world of software development seems to be one where everyone copies the best new ideas. Whatever linux may do to gain market share, Microsoft can just copy that. If it comes to it, they can start giving away their software for free, if only long enough to cripple the linux community. I have faith in Microsoft in general for one reason: they have all the smartest people in the country working for them. All the smartest people from my university got jobs at Microsoft as programmers, and many of the people who were best in marketing/business went there too. A lot of the people in the linux community are people who just weren't good enough to get an MS job and so they became bitter and now they work hard to bring MS down. Smart people go where the money is, its rare to find someone who will throw away a sweet MS job for their principles.
Sometimes immigrants bring that "special" baggage with them. Not all immigrants are the same.
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-- "The evil stops here" -Petr
Yes... we don't have controlled media here... It's always "the truth" on all network news in North America... Right. That's why the current administration said that it should be a crime for anyone to speak against them. How many reports do you see airing the dirty laundry of the current administration? Definitely not on par with the last administration. No for a lack of dirty underwear though.
The communists have their problems, but no more so than the rotten capitalists. Mark my words, capitalism is failing. Within the next 50-75 years, it will be gone and the rest of the world will have moved onto something else. The former U.S.A. will be like the third-world/less developed countries in the last century were. Not suffering under a communist regime though... suffering under a corporate regime dominated by monopolies that the rest of the world has more than likely avoided. Trust me, unless the U.S.A. becomes more aware and involved in world affairs as a peer rather than trying to be a leader, it will quickly become irrelevant. Winning every time is meaningless if no one is paying attention to you. I think that's what bugs capitalists more than anything else. Wake up! The American century is over.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o