Comments

• Victor Soliz

  2008-05-28 20:25:32

  Hey:
  
  http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1418
  
  

  Ozzie acknowledged, “open source was much more potentially disruptive” to Microsoft’s business. (He noted that, unlike Google, many open-source programmers aren’t beholden to shareholders.)
  
  Ozzie said that competing with open source “made Microsoft a much stronger company.” He cited changes Microsoft has made to its business model — such as focusing on making its closed-source software interoperable with open-source products — as directly attributable to that competition.

  It is strange that Ozzie said "open source was..." As if he is thinking that they won the war with open source thanks to the FUD deals...

• Victor Soliz

  2008-05-28 20:59:43

  Also:
  
  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080528133529454
  
  As you know, as Moonlight is free software, we are supposed to ignore this groklaw article as it is an attack to the good free software developers that coded moonlight, curse anyone who dares to speak wrongly of a project that calls itself open source.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-05-28 23:07:15

  Yeah, I reckon Waugh is already there striking back to defend Goldfarb, Guthrie and de Icaza.
  
  Microsoft's #1 rival is Free software (GPL) and GNU/Linux. Ballmer said so in February. Ozzie can pretend it's all under control and find workarounds that poison the Free Desktop. We're not foolish enough to allow this to happen.

• Not Laughing

  2008-05-29 06:28:18

  "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? I ask that of all my friends" - Joker, Batman The Movie
  
  Remember, Silverlight was and is the name of a sword used to slay demons in the on-line Java based game known as Runescape. It existed before Microsoft's Silverlight did.
  
  So here we have Silverlight, probably named after the Runescape Silverlight sword, to slay the Adobe flash demon, and we have Moonlight and the obvious "dance with the devil" reference.
  
  Microsoft is a cancerous sore which needs to be revealed for what it is. Praise boycottnovell for its power of truth.