M Harris wrote:
On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:20, M Harris wrote:
Well, the other shoe has dropped. The leopard in Redmond is really desperate...
MICRO4OFT'S OPEN SOURCE FETISH
This is another take on the same theme... this guy blogs that M$ will never sue because they can't afford it... read his three reasons why. This guy's ire is really up...
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/making_sense_of.ht...
The comment I like is: "Of course, the funniest thing in all this is the alleged violation of the "garbage in, garbage out" rule. Microsoft, whose software is notoriously buggy, believes that the open soure community has somehow stolen that buggy code...and made much less buggy products out of it: The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's patents. And as a mature company facing unfavorable market trends and fearsome competitors like Google, Microsoft is pulling no punches: It wants royalties. If the company gets its way, free software won't be free anymore. If at all true, Microsoft should be begging the open source community to teach it how to spin gold from Microsoft's straw, rather than castigating it for alleged theft. Microsoft knows how to put a pretty face on a pig, but it has yet to figure out how to fix the pig." -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org