Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
>
> "Virtualisation is the Next Big Thing in computing, and the lesson of
> Vista is that Microsoft will have to embrace it to survive in the
> operating system market. The trouble (for Microsoft) is that the leader in
> the technology is Xensource, a spin-out from Cambridge University's
> Computer Laboratory. And here's where the delicious ironies begin. For not
> only is the lab housed in the William Gates Building (in recognition of a
> donation by the Microsoft boss), but Xen's core technology is - wait for
> it! - open source, which in Redmond is still viewed as the spawn of the
> communist devil."
"Work on Xen has been supported by UK EPSRC grant GR/S01894, Intel Research,
HP Labs, Microsoft Research, Network Appliance, and XenSource Inc."
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html
LMAO!
Plus, Xen is NOT the leader in virtualization. It's a big word, covering
lots of technologies and competitors. VMWare is far better known than Xen.
> Joining the enemy is not only a sign of weakness.
Pledging allegiance to OSS then leaving cola and running large amounts of
closed source code day in and day out - like you and most of cola do - is
not a sign of weakness... just hypocrisy.
> It's awareness and
> realisation of a death knell. Gates sidleles with the winning side.
In virtually every measure, Windows and closed source is the winning side.
Why does this have to be explained to you?
> But
> being Open Source, he deelevates his company and puts it in a head-to-head
> battle with rivals whose cost is zilch.
>
> Ballmer has a nice chair collection. Maybe they can make a profit selling
> these on a backyard sale.
I thought you were an OSS advocate? What would you know about profit?
Schestowitz and Vanwensveen: babbling on.
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