The Web According to Ballmer
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| Open source is not a new technology area. It was a new business model. In
| the last three or four years, we have competed very well by extending
| our value. Open source never goes away as a business model or competitor.
| We have learned how to compete with open source, and we will compete
| with it for the rest of time. But competing with open source will have
| to be something that's burned bright on the foreheads of our senior people.
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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060716/ENT05/607160496/1115
This statement contradicts the fast growth of Open Source. There is still
this /illusion/m which is a residue of OEM's who are forced to (through
'scare tactics') to prebundle nothing but Windows. Meanwhile, all surveys
indicate that OSS technology (and not necessily Linux) grows at enormous
scales.
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