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Works for M$, too.
---Open Source is another form of monoculture where everyone uses everyone else's code for their own proposes. One bug in the zlib libraries and everyone the uses it has the same problem. Because people treat it as Free Beer, it suffers from the Caveat Emptor syndrome like any other software: There is no warranty either expressly stated or implied. And it's certainly less filling.---

Or, change a word or two:

M$ is another form of monoculture where everyone uses one companies code for their own proposes. One bug in the dll and everyone the uses it has the same problem. Because people can't fix it, it suffers from the Caveat Emptor syndrome like any other software: There is no warranty either expressly stated or implied. And it's certainly less filling.

Being gouged for code? Welcome to the sixties.
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Open Standard ?  JJ_z | 10/16/03
Oh, the only defacto standards are on Windows?  DonnieBoy | 10/16/03
Useful observation  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/17/03
Linux rules servers  Always Annoyed | 10/17/03
open source can make money to  NemesisNL | 10/21/03
Useful observation  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/17/03
But it does generate revenue  Green Peace | 10/17/03
Investigate for your self  sujai.nath@... | 10/16/03
Investigate for yourself?  slopoke | 10/16/03
Not true  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/17/03
No?  escoles@... | 10/17/03
Investigate for your self  Green Peace | 10/17/03
So which will it be?  John Dulles | 10/16/03
Works for M$, too.  zd-spam | 10/16/03
Sun keeps falling off the horse, or is it thrown  FilledOut | 10/16/03
Just accept the reality  lgmbackman | 10/17/03
Yep, Sun,MS others can be in trouble with current strats  FilledOut | 10/17/03
Which standards?  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/17/03
Why??  bit byte | 10/17/03
Here's why.  escoles@... | 10/17/03
Ask yourself: Why does IBM love open standards?  escoles@... | 10/17/03
too bad OS's were not like cars  lmaxwell | 10/19/03

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