MS Rails On Open Source, Appeals To Gov't Greed

Bill Harper writes "Open source software is a 'waste of money,' a Microsoft executive has said. He goes on to say that governments planning to use it will damage their own economies and that giving away source code is shooting yourself in the foot. What's interesting though is that this is just the latest in a series of nonsense arguments put forward by MS in Asia because it's scared of Linux stealing the market. An early one was that open-source software is anti-competitive!" Funny thing is, the MS executive (Chris Sharp) used to work for Red Hat.

Comments

Hurt your Country and Community?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, right.

Only hurts if you have M$ Development in your country and very little at that.

In the end you benifit by having control of the whole show. Even if the licence changes you just fork your Countries version off.

Re:Funny?

[rah1420]

Greed may not be the right word

I think the word we're groping for is 'whore.'

Re:And the Asian government reps just nod and smil

[B747SP]

I just got some hate mail in private email from one of the aforementioned 'Morons'. Poor guy seems a bit delusional. First up, he's of the perception that the aforementioned crash-course means of learning a new language works really really well. Well hey, if your foreign language skills were half as good as you think they are, I wouldn't be getting a kick out of watching native speakers laugh their guts up at you behind your back! Then, he somehow managed to establish that my discussion of culture and business was actually talk about religion!!! (go figure) and that I was attacking him. I guess that's why they're colloquially known as 'Morons'. Anyway Mister Joe Brower , I don't accept unsolicited mail from anyone, much less unsolicited hate mail from someone who has problems interpreting stuff in his native language whilst professing to be an excellent speaker of a bunch of other languages. What I *will* do is enter "jb_02_98@yahoo.com" on any web page that wants to know my email address for the next month or three. No, thank *you* for your time (and you're right, I'd like it if you kept your religion out of my slashdot).