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Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent'

Posted by timothy on from the deseo-suscribirme-a-su-boletan-de-noticias dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The President of Microsoft Latin America, in criticizing the Brazilian government for its support of open source software, claimed that declaring something open is how you 'mask incompetence.' That seems especially funny coming from Microsoft, who has used 'closed' to mask incompetence for years. I thought 'open' meant that people could find and fix (or ignore) incompetence, whereas closed meant you were stuck with the incompetence."

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  1. Re:not long for his job by angloquebecer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How parent did not get modded funny, I don't know. Maybe the mods are open-minded too.

  2. Re:not long for his job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "OSS is never on the edge of innovation."

    The first TCP/IP stack.
    The first SMTP server.
    The first web server.
    The first web browser.
    The first Kerberos implementation.
    The first NFS implementation.

    Yeah... you must be true.