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".
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