This is the first month that Microsoft's web server market has actually shrunk.
It's a good thing we have Apache, because it will keep any company from decommoditizing web server protocols.
Considering how important the web is, Microsoft is losing a lot by not being able to control the server market. This is good for consumers and for open standards.
MS can't kill Linux like that. If they have an OSS interface to Linux called MS-Windows, then they can't hide the source or programming.
I don't see how we can have an MS Linux unless MS made a closed app that runs on top of Linux (like wine, except working properly because MS coded it), and made it so that it can run windows applications. If they are the only ones capable of running Windows applications under Linux, people will buy, and they can replace the MS tax with Linux.
However, wine already runs many windows apps.
They could do any number of things with Linux.. All they need to do is start selling a value-added linux that has many closed applications developed by them running on top of it.
The only problem with that is that then they will be on a level playing field with everyone else.
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I pay $34.95+cable bills per month for my cable modem..
No per-minute fees.
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This is the first month that Microsoft's web server market has actually shrunk.
It's a good thing we have Apache, because it will keep any company from decommoditizing web server protocols.
Considering how important the web is, Microsoft is losing a lot by not being able to control the server market. This is good for consumers and for open standards.
Free software is free software.
There's no sense in attacking each other here.
MS can't kill Linux like that. If they have an OSS interface to Linux called MS-Windows, then they can't hide the source or programming.
I don't see how we can have an MS Linux unless MS made a closed app that runs on top of Linux (like wine, except working properly because MS coded it), and made it so that it can run windows applications. If they are the only ones capable of running Windows applications under Linux, people will buy, and they can replace the MS tax with Linux.
However, wine already runs many windows apps.
They could do any number of things with Linux.. All they need to do is start selling a value-added linux that has many closed applications developed by them running on top of it.
The only problem with that is that then they will be on a level playing field with everyone else.
And then we'll have gotten what we want, no?
I don't think anyone claims that we've invented this.
It's just good that we now have these things available in the free software community.
We're quickly picking up technology that only the commercial world has had for a while.