Microsoft's New Hurdles

gnuadam writes "The New York Times (free reg. required) is now running a piece about how the recently accepted settlement between Microsoft and the DOJ will affect the ever-so-loving relationship between them and the "worldwide community of volunteer programmers" who work on Linux and associated programs. Of interest, one interviewee quipped, "My prediction is that within three years time, Microsoft will `give away' its operating system to preserve its revenue in the applications business." Would Microsoft give away Windows to sell Office? Stay tuned." Update: 11/04 19:33 GMT by T : In related news, an anonymous reader writes "In an interview with Linux and Main Free Software Foundation General Counsel Eben Moglen reacts to Friday's U.S. v. Microsoft ruling and describes how it and 'trusted computing' will figure in formulating the next version of the GPL, expected in the next few months."

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Re:This decision was bad news for MS in the long r

[iplayfast]

This is interesting. Could you expand on what you mean by revenue side financials and income=stream differentials? I'm not familiar with those terms.

Re:This decision was bad news for MS in the long r

[scotch]

Please don't feed the Trolls

Re:This decision was bad news for MS in the long r

[iplayfast]

If you've got nothing useful to say....

Why are you saying it?

Re:This decision was bad news for MS in the long r

[Stonehand]

You didn't check the guy's posting history, obviously. "PhysicsGenius" is a troll who's making a monkey out of moderators by getting karma for buzzword-heavy bullshit.

Re:This decision was bad news for MS in the long r

[scotch]

I said it, you just didn't read it. PhysicsGenius is a BS artist troll. This should be pretty common knowledge on Slashdot by now, but since it apparently isn't, I'm just doing my part to spread the word. If you're looking for an unobfuscated answer to your original query to PhysicsGenius, you should look at his posting history to see how likely that is.