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Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs
theodp writes "On the Malaysian leg of a whirlwind Asian tour, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates voiced his concerns over the growing goodwill towards open source, especially in Asia, emphasizing how damaging open source software can be. 'If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is not something you do as a day job. If you want to give it away, you work on it at night,' he said. Gates, who apparently has never contended with the horrors of a VB upgrade, when on to say that '[Open source] doesn't guarantee upward compatibility.'"
I read that as Gates kills Jobs (Steve)
Apple to remain unaffected, release 35" computer screen.
Visual Basic generates jobs. The kinds where real professionals are called in to fix a big mess.
In 10 years he will be eating out of a dumpster Maybe a platinum dumpster filled with caviar. Tens of billions don't disappear that easily.
Open Source Sushi
It does kill the job market for MCSEs.
My rights don't need management.
> Buggy whip makers were put out of work by the automobile
-nod- Microsoft suffers from the same problem - there's just no market for their buggy products anymore.
25% Funny, 25% Insightful, 25% Informative, 25% Troll
1) Open source gives away software for free.
2) Giving something away for free is anti-capitalist.
3) Anti-capitalism is Communism!
4) Communists don't think like you and I do.
5) You or I would never kill a puppy.
6) As neither of us would kill a puppy, and communists don't think like you or I do, communists will kill puppies.
7) Therefore, Open Source Kills puppies.
8) Hence: Chewbacca.
(It's satire people...)