A Cynic Rips Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, 2007 @04:45AM from the everybodys-a-critic dept.

AlexGr writes to tell us that Howard Anderson chaired an interesting meeting the other day with senior executives from Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell. The discussion took a look at whether or not enterprise users really want open source. "Naturally, I disagreed -- partially because I am a naturally disagreeable person. Any idiot can make friends -- but can you make some really serious enemies? I disagreed, however, because allegiance to open source depends on who you are. Let me give you an example. If you are No. 1 or No. 2 in your industry, you hate open source. You make your money by selling proprietary solutions: Microsoft and Cisco. If you are No. 3 to No. 10, you look at open source as a way to get back to those serious RSEUs, because they are where you make money."

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Re:Most important point at end of article by joe+155 · 2007-05-21 05:19 · Score: 4, Funny

"(And as a by-product he gets page views of course.)"

Either you don't get how /. works or he doesn't... he'll have only generated 2 page hits; the submitter and you. No one else here has RTFA.

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Re:Most important point at end of article by B'Trey · 2007-05-21 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

can you spell hypocrit?

Yes. You, apparently, can not.

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Re:Natural Competition?? by Plutonite · 2007-05-21 07:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Moderators! Help! He's calling me an econo-sexual!! Is this not abuse?

PS: we are straying from the point, and wading in the murky waters of the fascist nitpickers. And if you provoke me further, the only thing I shall sodomize will be YOU! Go away :)