The FSF may think the "right" thing to do is to force Lindows to hand over the code. But it
seems like the FSF is shooting themselves in the foot. The world is watching this event, and it's proving to them right now that going Open Source is a bad idea for business. If you look at some of the failures of Open Source (Eazel, Netscape) and consider what troubles Lindows has to overcome, most businesspeople have enough reason to never think again about contributing to or joining the Open Source community. This is not the public image that we need, like Hewlett Packard slamming Compaq in public because they don't want a merger. This is the equivalent of Bill Gates writing a book about Microsoft being evil! A house divided against itself will surely fall. If Lindows has to stand up to Microsoft AND the Open Source community, then they're doomed for sure.
Perhaps we should be asking ourselves by the CEO is insecure about releasing the source code. Is it because he doesn't trust Open Source developers with his changes to the code? I highly doubt it. I think it's because he doesn't want the Open Source community to expose his hype about his Linux distro being the next successor to Windows. Think about it. What could his measly team of 20 developers, working for a year, possibly contribute to the work of thousands of developers who have worked on Linux for several years? He is definitely having delusions of grandeur, just as many have when creating their own distro: "I have created my own Operating System! I will become bigger than Microsoft. Wow, I'm so smart!"
How does the web site's html have anything to do with HCI? Just because someone is knowledgeable about HCI doesn't mean that they applied it to their web site (although it would be a smart, but not necessarily profitable thing to do).
M$ uses linux for many tasks (like new vision for future versions of Windows). Bungie created this server before they got acquired by M$, not to mention that M$ has tried to allow Bungie to be the company they were before they got acquired (yeah, right) - although the Mac releases have almost disappeared completely from Bungie's previously Mac-only past.
Even though Bungie is owned by Microsoft, Microsoft has allowed Bungie free reign in many areas, and allowed them to keep their different culture. I really doubt this had any impact on M$
There would have been a huge market for Borland, if they weren't so late to the game. Call me biased, but I would much prefer CodeWarrior to Borland, even if the debugger wouldn't work when I first installed it. However there's still a huge chance that Borland will become a very popular IDE. Oh yeah, and I can give you 240 REASONS why I would use Borland instead of GCC if it were left to only that. Because those are the extra seconds I have to wait to compile a mid-sized project if I choose to use GCC. Yes, 4 and a half minutes instead of 30 seconds! And I'm never going to forget some of the 2 hour kernel compiles from back in the day with GCC, mind you, I'm no expert at compiling the kernel.
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I know people who worked on the team. 'nuff said.
Microsoft makes as much money on Office for Mac as they do selling it for Windows. Who in their right mind would stop development?
The FSF may think the "right" thing to do is to force Lindows to hand over the code. But it seems like the FSF is shooting themselves in the foot. The world is watching this event, and it's proving to them right now that going Open Source is a bad idea for business. If you look at some of the failures of Open Source (Eazel, Netscape) and consider what troubles Lindows has to overcome, most businesspeople have enough reason to never think again about contributing to or joining the Open Source community. This is not the public image that we need, like Hewlett Packard slamming Compaq in public because they don't want a merger. This is the equivalent of Bill Gates writing a book about Microsoft being evil! A house divided against itself will surely fall. If Lindows has to stand up to Microsoft AND the Open Source community, then they're doomed for sure. Perhaps we should be asking ourselves by the CEO is insecure about releasing the source code. Is it because he doesn't trust Open Source developers with his changes to the code? I highly doubt it. I think it's because he doesn't want the Open Source community to expose his hype about his Linux distro being the next successor to Windows. Think about it. What could his measly team of 20 developers, working for a year, possibly contribute to the work of thousands of developers who have worked on Linux for several years? He is definitely having delusions of grandeur, just as many have when creating their own distro: "I have created my own Operating System! I will become bigger than Microsoft. Wow, I'm so smart!"
How does the web site's html have anything to do with HCI? Just because someone is knowledgeable about HCI doesn't mean that they applied it to their web site (although it would be a smart, but not necessarily profitable thing to do).
M$ uses linux for many tasks (like new vision for future versions of Windows). Bungie created this server before they got acquired by M$, not to mention that M$ has tried to allow Bungie to be the company they were before they got acquired (yeah, right) - although the Mac releases have almost disappeared completely from Bungie's previously Mac-only past.
Even though Bungie is owned by Microsoft, Microsoft has allowed Bungie free reign in many areas, and allowed them to keep their different culture. I really doubt this had any impact on M$
There would have been a huge market for Borland, if they weren't so late to the game. Call me biased, but I would much prefer CodeWarrior to Borland, even if the debugger wouldn't work when I first installed it. However there's still a huge chance that Borland will become a very popular IDE. Oh yeah, and I can give you 240 REASONS why I would use Borland instead of GCC if it were left to only that. Because those are the extra seconds I have to wait to compile a mid-sized project if I choose to use GCC. Yes, 4 and a half minutes instead of 30 seconds! And I'm never going to forget some of the 2 hour kernel compiles from back in the day with GCC, mind you, I'm no expert at compiling the kernel.