OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 4, 2003 @12:37AM from the preemptive-boilerplate-yammering dept.

seldo writes "More news from Microsoft's latest quarterly filing: according to eWeek, Microsoft says it may have to lower its prices in response to competition from open-source software. From the filing: "To the extent the open source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the company's products may decline, the company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline". This is a fairly major revelation from Microsoft, and if it happens, it may be one of the biggest wins yet for open-source software: what do you know -- competition works!"

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Re:MS has only two products, was :Margin compariso by chickensdelight · 2003-02-04 05:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Very interesting and useful information.Or are some kind of super mole planted here Microsoft to spread FUD through out the free and open source software world. I am wearing my tin foil hat so you cant mess with my head and I KNOW YOU HAVE ALIENS LOCKED UP IN HANGERS!!!! THE TRUTH WILL OUT!!!!!!!!!