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Its better than nothing

Before you only got a binary and you were stuck with it. Mostly depending on expensive MS support to help fix your problems. And many times it took forever to fix it (you can NEVER be fast enough for those above), or worse, support wasn't smart enough to understand how to.

Now, people can be a little bit more independent of MS, and actually go further with their IT staff to fix problems. They don't need to bring MS on stuff they don't want outsiders to know about.

DeGroot said. "This helps to defuse the argument that Microsoft is secret and closed, and Linux is open," he said. "Microsoft has been reasonably successful in taking that off of the table. It's no longer a deal breaker."

But, I totally disagree with this statement. I think enough of MS's code is withheld that it still falls into the 'secret and closed' category when compared to GPL/BSD/MIT type software. Also, even if I found it for them, I am still dependent on MS to fix problems with their code.

I wish the article told a bit more about the contract involved in seeing the code. Its obviously not for individuals and small businesses. I guess MS doesn't trust it with them. Well, its their property, they can do what they want, and its our money, we will do what we want.

From what I see, GPL/BSD/MIT type open source and this shared source aren't even comparable. They are totally different (its like apples and oranges... they are both fruit, but you can't really compare). This is for programmers who want a little bit more control in solving problems, and that's something better than what they had before.

Posted by: doe_z   Posted on: 01/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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