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Same old and tired line.

They have stifled nothing. They are still the company to catch, in all objective reports.


OSS has not been deterred at all by MS and yet almost 20 years later they are still trying to compete and failing, with a FREE product.


They have no real integration higher up the software stack yet they are working on it...why? Because MS does and is very very successful with it.


Apple has not ever been deterred by MS, in fact MS has worked in a non compete, almost partner role for years. Apple used MS technology by licensing AppleSoft basic from MS in the 80s just to have something on the Apple II machines they could call a programming environment.

I like AppleSoft basic as well. Nice work MS, you always have created the best programming languages and tools in the business.


What you talk about it normal business. It happens every single day of the year between large companies. It's part of free enterprise so just learn to live with it.


And now we find that nobody can build a Mac clone and allow an option in the realm of the 2nd or 3rd largest computer maker in the world, yet you continue to hammer on MS which doesn't hamper Linux propogation at all, they have only themselve to blame. Shuttleworth said it out loud, didn't you hear it? Linux will never make money on the desktop. So here you have the "savior" of desktop Linux talking about monetizing Linux, or wishing he could monetize it on the desktop.


Linux will eventually fall to one vendor or two and that's it. Bye bye all distros except RH (fedora?) or Ubuntu, you will be nothing but hobbist systems forever.


You don't worry about the copyright avalanche that is starting to slide just a little. What happens when that baby goes? It will take an act of congress and taking away copyrights from people to settle it because otherwise there is going to be major unrest and contention and fighting inside the OSS world. It's already started and now there is the standard Linux which all distros do not meet the criteria for. I thought that all Linux based OSes were compatible? I mean i knew they weren't but we were sure led to believe they were. That or it would be easy to make them so. Turns out that is wrong, it's not that easy w/o many distros giving up much of what they've developed and is only used by them.



Please stop with the continual "blame MS for everything" routine. It's just stupid, tired and lacks all reason that exists with all other systems. Google is currently dictating what happens on the web. are they stifling web development? Well, are they?

Posted by: xuniL_z   Posted on: 01/08/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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