__/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 31 August 2006 00:15 \__
> Did you spot this:-
>
> "OSS poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft,
> particularly in server space. Additionally, the intrinsic parallelism and
> free idea exchange in OSS has benefits that are not replicable with our
> current licensing model and therefore present a long-term developer
> mindshare threat."
>
> ... and that's from Microsoft!
Open source envy? What boggles the mind is "if you can't beat them, join
them".
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