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Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source
Attila Dimedici writes "Charles Babcock of Information Week published an interesting article suggesting that Microsoft will have to at least to some degree take Windows open source if they want to stay in business. He suggests that the money to be made from the things MS builds on top of Windows (Office, Server, SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint, etc.) is so much greater than what can be made from Windows itself that MS will have to give up the revenue stream from Windows in order to maintain these other, more valuable, revenue streams."
Gosh, I laughed so hard at that.
Oh goodness, that is so funny. Microsoft going open source with Windows.
Snort
Man, it hurts to laugh now.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
and first step towards FOSS crowd, almost finished after 10 years in MS research labs, is FUCKING GRUB SUPPORT.
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I was going to point out that Steve Ballmer has to die eventually, but then I realized that he'll still be sweating when he's in Hell...
Desire is not an occupation.
[citation needed].
Wishing doesn't make it so. The shift, if any, is to MacOS, which took an open source OS and locked the fucker down. I want a family sized blunt of whatever the article author is smoking.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Windows is not ready for the desktop.
They don't pay for the OS, noob: it comes free with the computer.
Look, you brought up PHBs. Let's not pretend that they're smarterer than they are.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Come on, Steve's not a bad guy.
He's just kind of crazy.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Nah, if this was Dvorak it would have been like:
"Why Linux Must (and Will) Run on Windows By 2011"
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
When it comes to Windows, free is still too expensive.
Wow! Microsoft makes 211% profit? Incredible!
Your ad here.
Microsoft already has Linux labs, wherein they probably torture Linux installations to extract strategic information.
Sam ty sig.
Leave it to Microsoft to make things complicated. All that time spent torturing those boxes, when all they had to do was apt-get install answers-devel. Sigh.
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Microsoft already has Linux labs, wherein they probably torture Linux installations to extract strategic information.
Fortunately most chipsets do not take well to waterboarding and the system is soon out of it's misery.
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
sudoapt-get install answers-devel
There fixed that for yah. No torture necessary, you just need ask the right way.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
Get with the times - they used enhanced interrogation, not torture; it's only torture if it's done to punish.
Anyway, they don't need to punish the distros in their Redmond lairs^H^H^H^H^Hlabs - they already do that with NTFS.
Xenix, anyone?
Yeah, but then the Microsoft version of Linux pops up a dialog box, and says:
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
The biggest problem with Microsoft making anything open source would be that everyone will laugh.
> Fortunately most chipsets do not take well to waterboarding and the system is soon out of it's misery.
Actually, they use mineral oil instead of water, but the word mineralboarding sounds funny.
sudoapt-get install answers-devel
There fixed that for yah. No torture necessary, you just need ask the right way.
I was thinking "sudo install devel-devel-devel-devel". www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
sudoapt-get install answers-devel
There fixed that for yah. No torture necessary, you just need ask the right way.
actually it would be "sudo apt-get install developers-developers-developers-developers"
They don't need sudo if they're already running as super user.
Windows has consistently failed to deliver what customers want, but free software does that by definition
What, fail to deliver what customers want ?
And Coca-Cola should open source their recipee too! Cause they already have such a big market share that it would be impossible for anyone to beat them... C'mon!
MS's revenue stream will increasingly become the annual license fee.
You missed the future tense there, didn't you?