"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
news:1624526.AKBPULW5Qh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Could Microsoft Be Going Open Source: Through Linux?
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> | This would give Microsoft an open source future in a very painless way:
> | adopt the already established Linux platforms as your own. Extend the
> | olive branch, give them their new GPL 3 and reap the benefits of
> | Linux in the commercial market, the future commercial market based
> | on open source.
> `----
>
> http://theeternaluniverse.blogspot.com/2007/06/could-microsoft-be-going-open-source.html
>
The author of this article is completely clueless, Microsoft would *never*
open-source Windows (it won't even open-source MS-DOS, which is long dead
and buried), let alone Office. There will be no open-source future for
Microsoft or has everyone forgotten Bill Gates' manifest to free-software
community in the late 70's?
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