I wonder what are your feelings going to be, when free software becomes technically superior to proprietary applications and the free sofware movement is destroyed by Microsoft's strategy(software patents + DMCA + Treacherous Computing). Microsoft has absolutely no chance to fairly compete with free software, because free software proved so many times to have a superior development model(open source, as you call it). If you don't believe me, maybe you could explain why such a great company as Microsoft is pushing software patents and other absurd things like that(even though nobody else wants them) ? I can offer a possible answer: compare the evolution of software quality on the Microsoft Windows(and other proprietary software) platform and the evolution of software quality on GNU(and other free software). Apply the formula and make an estimation about what could happen in 10 years time. So, in order to keep your monopoly standing and money flowing, you "invent" wonderful technologies(Trusted Computing for example, but I am sure you are very talented at coming up with other brilliant ideas).
I want you out of my life, honestly. I don't want Microsoft software on the computers in public schools(which we, the citizens, pay for, btw.). I don't want to receive.doc attachments anymore. Go away!
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I wonder what are your feelings going to be, when free software becomes technically superior to proprietary applications and the free sofware movement is destroyed by Microsoft's strategy(software patents + DMCA + Treacherous Computing). Microsoft has absolutely no chance to fairly compete with free software, because free software proved so many times to have a superior development model(open source, as you call it). If you don't believe me, maybe you could explain why such a great company as Microsoft is pushing software patents and other absurd things like that(even though nobody else wants them) ? I can offer a possible answer: compare the evolution of software quality on the Microsoft Windows(and other proprietary software) platform and the evolution of software quality on GNU(and other free software). Apply the formula and make an estimation about what could happen in 10 years time. So, in order to keep your monopoly standing and money flowing, you "invent" wonderful technologies(Trusted Computing for example, but I am sure you are very talented at coming up with other brilliant ideas). I want you out of my life, honestly. I don't want Microsoft software on the computers in public schools(which we, the citizens, pay for, btw.). I don't want to receive .doc attachments anymore. Go away!