Comments on: Microsoft Tries Squeezing the ‘L’ Out of LAMP Stacks http://techrights.org/2008/10/17/wamp-strategy-warning/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amd-linux http://techrights.org/2008/10/17/wamp-strategy-warning/comment-page-1/#comment-28244 amd-linux Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:56:27 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/10/17/wamp-strategy-warning/#comment-28244 To me, this all looks as if they are getting more and more desperate. Installing FOSS on Windows, the intensive use of money, be it legal or not so legal, giving Win XP away for free (here in Germany, they obviously even pay now for pre-installed XP netbooks, covered with some marketing subsidies) - that all speaks the same language: Their main business (selling standard software) is drowning - like the internet was the death for proprietary plattforms such as AOL, Compuserve, MSN, FOSS and open formats will be the future infrastructure of computing. And in opposite to IBM in the 80s, this affects their whole business model. Since they know this, they try to delay the unavoidable as long as possible. The OS and standard applications will be a commodity as they are already becoming one on mobile devices. Like the OS for a washing machine - Joe Plumber just does not care, as long as the laundry is ok..... To me, this all looks as if they are getting more and more desperate.

Installing FOSS on Windows, the intensive use of money, be it legal or not so legal, giving Win XP away for free (here in Germany, they obviously even pay now for pre-installed XP netbooks, covered with some marketing subsidies) – that all speaks the same language:

Their main business (selling standard software) is drowning – like the internet was the death for proprietary plattforms such as AOL, Compuserve, MSN, FOSS and open formats will be the future infrastructure of computing.

And in opposite to IBM in the 80s, this affects their whole business model. Since they know this, they try to delay the unavoidable as long as possible.

The OS and standard applications will be a commodity as they are already becoming one on mobile devices. Like the OS for a washing machine – Joe Plumber just does not care, as long as the laundry is ok…..

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