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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."
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Hard to believe linux desktop gets anyone at Microsoft shaking in their booties with its < 1% market share. MacOS just broke above 10%. That's a target to neutralise, not linux.
That can't be it, Office for Mac is a self-contained, drag and drop installer and has been since Office 98.
So's Camino (Mozilla's answer to Safari). What's your point?
There's a theory that Mac users are more likely to pay for software, but I haven't seen a lot of numbers to back that up.
Why would a pirate choose to use a user-obsequious system? I mean sure, maybe a script kidde or some such, but at least some of the pirates actually know what they're doing and hence would not want to use a system which doesn't want them to know what they're doing.
$ make available