Hilf Claims Free Software Movement Dead

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 14, 2007 @10:08AM from the faster-than-a-speeding-fud dept.

moe1975 writes to mention that Bill Hilf has taken a rather aggressive stance with regard to the status of the Free Software movement. With claims like; "The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today" it would certainly seem that the next offensive is going to be sponsored by denial. "For the desktop, Hilf sees a new frontier in terms of rich client programming. With more and more services by Amazon, Google, Yahoo and, of course, Microsoft being run as services rather than as software installed locally, it will be up to the desktop to provide richer functionality."

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Re:Huh? by jimdread · 2007-05-14 17:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Windows is in such a mess that MS is not able to make any real improvements without breaking everything and basically starting from scratch.
Will Microsoft be smart enough to copy Apple? Will Windows 2010 be a clunky MS monster GUI slapped onto a BSD system? It's going to be exciting watching to see what they come up with! I expect they won't just die quietly, Microsoft will go out with a bang!