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OSS on Windows the Next Big Thing?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-forget-the-tm-after-thing dept.

Lam1969 writes "Linux geeks and Microsoft have similar interests, says Computerworld: They both are interested in seeing open-source software succeed. Linux geeks admit that the open source OS isn't necessarily a better platform for important applications, and Microsoft recognizes that many of its customers are using open-source applications, and doesn't want to alienate them." From the article: "Faced with the allure of inexpensive open-source applications among its core customer base of small to midsize businesses, Microsoft has toned down its rhetoric. 'It's a myth that open-source and Windows can't work together. Customers just aren't religious about these things,' said Ryan Gavin, a director of platform strategy for Microsoft."

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  1. Re:OSS Developers against Windows by wtmcgee · · Score: 0, Troll

    I actually believe that's one of the tenets of the Open Source Definition.

    http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

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  2. Re:OSS Developers against Windows by IflyRC · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree - I believe 9 and 10 are most relevent. As with the prior posts regarding the projects asking "Please do not port to Windows" - in a sense they are undermining the spirit of OSS.

    If someone wrote an OSS app for Windows and stated "Please do not port to Linux", /. readers would be all over it about how Windows/Microsoft is trying to edge out Linux and OSS as it was not true OSS.

  3. Re:Bingo. by Deviant+Q · · Score: 0, Troll
    [My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]

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  4. Re:Heresy! by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Troll
    Black and white? What about Java?

    It's a bunch of crap anyway. They act like the P-languages are the only options, when all along people have been developing dynamic web content using everything from bourne shell to objective C.

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