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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:Why editorialize the article? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sorry, I should have close-captioned my post for the humor-impaired.

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  2. Re:well he has a point... but wrong choice of word by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't see where you've proved your point. Except for XBMC, which I haven't used, I'd take the Windows product over Linux any day. Apache is especially bad, it's old and tired, just let it die already.

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