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Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes
mjasay writes "Microsoft's most recent annual report suggests that the company is increasingly coming to grips with open source, yet also seems determined to perpetuate myths about open source that poorly serve it and its shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has suggested before that 'free software means no free soda' for Microsoft employees; but this is perhaps the first time that Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a public document. In the annual report, Microsoft makes two primary false claims about open source: 1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights; and 2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products. Perhaps Microsoft has forgotten its own 'innovative' past copying of markets and technologies created by Apple and others. But at least Microsoft gets one thing right: 'To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, our sales, revenue and operating margins may decline.'"
Learn what ad hominem means before you throw latin around moron.
Meow, when I first read that, I thought, meow whats this about? Did you hate everyone before meow? or did something happen just meow to make you hate everything?
Meow I'm left pondering what hating everything means, if you hate everything equally, well meow, doesn't that mean you don't hate anything at all meow?
Answer meow, or later... on second thought, it doesn't matter at all meow.
I'm outta here meow... CHICKEN FUCKER!.
So in your opinion, it will only be innovation if Microsoft employees were to produce offsprings by sexual intercourse within Microsoft premises and then these offsprings were to be bred and educated inside a Microsoft commune without any contact with the outside world and then they would create technology completely from scratch in absolute isolation?