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Story: Microsoft rejects IBM strategy and open source 'dorks'
Posted by: Rich Steiner (Tuesday 15 November 2005, 8:18 PM)
Open source can be an advantage even to end users.
The fact that a program's source code is available for virtually anyone to hack on can give software a longer useful lifespan.
How many times has a commercia vendor dropped a product even though you found it useful?
How many times has a software company forced you to upgrade a product with features you don't like or need in order to obtain continued support (leaving the users of older versions effectively abandoned)?
Users of similar software that is open source do not have that fear of abandonment.
Even if the original author(s) lose interest in the software, it's perfectly possible for someone else to pick up the reigns and fix bugs or add new features.
If a product goes in a direction someone doesn't like, the project can be forked into two different projects, with each one going in the direction that its authors deem best.
How cool is that?
Full Talkback thread
Story: Microsoft rejects IBM strategy and open source 'dorks'
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More FUD from M$. The only future they see is wind... Oldator -
Sounds like the guy has a screw loose, he definite... David Wright
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Oh PLEASE spare us another Microshaft user eXPeren... S.W. Bobcat
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Reminds me of the gibberish talked in a noisy pub... Sid Boyce
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Just anouther propaganda techniqe.
Just because y... Happy Camper
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Open source can be an advantage even to end users.... Rich Steiner -
What Windows Live and Office Live mean is simply t... Mitch 74
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Yes! there can be no comparison with the live vers... poppe
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Sales talk to convince people who have too much mo... Arthur B.
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Please - Google News beta works better than window... GCB
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m$ is a financial co presently trying to survive (... Anonymous
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Great words! :) I have no time for dorking with so... Michael Bezrukov
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Who wants to be in the pants of a jige of t first... Pierre Bourdon
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Bullshit! Open Source software is very usefull Andrejs
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