On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:02:21 -0500, DFS wrote:
> John Locke wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:52:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft's Open-Source Contradiction
>>
>> "And we've worked very hard on making the value of a commercial
>> company surpass what the open-source community can deliver, because
>> frankly, it's not a business model we can embrace. It's inconsistent
>> with shareholder value."
>>
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>> Its called greed. They could probably go open source and sell support
>> like Redhat, but they would have to scale the company down. I would
>> think this
>> would be VERY consistent with "shareholder value".
>
> I don't hear you volunteering to work free for the next 10 years. Why not?
> Greedy, I guess.
Where do you get this bizarre notion that developing OSS means working for
free?
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