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Story: Open source community wooed by Microsoft

Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 29 June 2006, 11:50 PM)

All Microsoft's actions since 2001, have been nothing but "smoke and mirrors". They only play the open-source card because they know they have no choice. This is another bit of PR nonsense. And its a recent tactical change. (Don't think I'm stupid MS, I know your sudden change of heart is a renewed initiative to gun after open-source...It stands in your way...It does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out). You'd have to be pretty oblivious to the real world, if you can't see that.

Remember the following examples:
(1) MS Anti-Linux FUD campaign => "Get the Facts"

(2) Bill Hilf of MS open-source Lab said just last week: "...Most open-source code is terribly inferior to commercial software code..."

(3) In 2001, Steve Ballmer said: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches"

They only act friendly because they know they're cornered. They know they can't compete. They tried legal nonsense using SCO as a sacrificial lamb. They tried FUD with their "Get the Facts". They even tried to copy ideas and infrastructure. Their Codex website is just a copy of SourceForge.net!

I do NOT wish to use ANY of their infrastructure, APIs, tools, etc on the projects I'm doing. I'm using SourceForge.net and all the programming tools are either LGPL, GPL, MIT or BSD licenses. None of this MS tainted nonsense...Shared Source Initiative...What a joke.

They came up with C# and .Net?
I'm not gonna touch them. C/C++, Python, Ruby, Lua, and Java are my tools.

MS is the disease that has plague both the end-user and the IT businesses...Heck, the entire industry.

Have a think about why the major portion of the web is filled with garbage that guns after Windows and other MS solutions. Have a think about why the typical Windows user is still clueless as ever. Think about how much time, MS has wasted of the legal system with their 100+ anti-trust cases around the world! Have a think about why Microsoft is doing this recent open-source thing!

You know what you do with a disease? You kill it by zapping it, vacination or cut it off. This is why the majority of the open-source community is ignoring MS. The better you don't work with them, the quicker they will die out.

MS can offer a ton of "olive branches" for all we care. We ain't gonna accept them. We know in the end, we'll win. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but MS knows its eventually gonna happen. We will slowly grind into fhe market.

Working or starting your business based on supporting MS solutions is a bad idea. Your back is always to the wall. If MS feels like it, they can crush you with a sudden change in infrastructure and initiatives. With open-source, we don't rely on MS. We are not at their mercy...We are not under their control...And they don't like it.

Just think about "Windows Genuine Advantage". This is more than just to annoy pirates. Its gonna fustrate more and more users.

MS's recent attempts are merely trying to "win the hearts and minds"...Well, its not gonna work. You ain't the US Army Special Forces, and you have a VERY untrustworthy history. No one would trust you as far as they can throw a Windows setup CD.