Open Source community subversion as marketing ploy
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| The launch of Microsoft's Codeplex "shared source" site is merely the
| latest attempt to undermine and usurp the open source community via clever
| marketing.
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| There are two main reasons proprietary vendors are threatened by open
| source alternatives: price compression and loss of market share.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/06/microsoft_attem.html
Read on and mind the bit on Microsoft and SAP strategies. Fairly
interesting...
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