The Problem with Crippleware
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| What Microsoft wants is that the third party products, whether written
| by hobbyists or professionals, serve Microsoft's business model, not
| their own.
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| Microsoft has always had great developer programs, and even at the CEO
| level, they get why developers matter. (Can you imagine any CEO other
| than Steve Ballmer doing his famous sweat-soaked "Developers, developers,
| developers" chant? If you can, I apologize for the visual.) But I
| think increasingly, Microsoft is running into the limits of its own
| model. It's seeking grassroots support to compete against the growing
| momentum in open source, and it's at a disadvantage.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/07/the_problem_wit_3.html
Yesterday's survey revealed that Windows developers and flocking to Linux.
Context:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39287310,00.htm?r=1
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