On Oct 8, 6:33 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I Were in Charge of...
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> | If I were in charge of Microsoft, I would open source a mid-tier product.
> | Just one to start with, but I would use a real open license, like GPL or BSD
> | or APL, etc. I would build a community infrastruture around it and let my
> | employees watch and finally realize that open source, when properly done, is
> | a good thing.
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> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-10-05-024-26-OP-BZ
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> Another new article:
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> The Four Freedoms Applied to Software as a Service
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> | The Free Software Foundation has defined Four Freedoms related to software.
> | These freedoms apply to users of software, not necessarily developers. In the
> | view of the FSF, these freedoms are ethical in nature, so much so that they
> | argue that software which violates these freedoms is unethical.
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> http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/10/the_four_freedoms_applie...
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> Related:
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> MICROSOFT: Is It Time to Open Source the Windows Operating System?
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> | Bill Gates had a particular dislike for OSS, but given that his role at
> | Microsoft is being steadily reduced, there may be others at Microsoft who see
> | a viable business proposition in the idea of an open Windows. It would, at a
> | stroke, deal with the antitrust rulings against it - both current and future.
> | It would pull in developer support to spread the cost and burden of
> | maintaining the 'beast', and it would still allow Microsoft to reap the
> | benefits of products based on the platform. The opening up of the OS to
> | competition will be balanced by the increase in adoption of Windows by those
> | hitherto unhappy to be locked-in to a proprietary OS - it would certainly
> | cause many adopters of Linux to pause for thought.
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> http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/opinionw/art.php?330
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> Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it
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> | Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical
> | and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it
> | over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver
> | the goods?
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> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2930812631.html
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> | "In the long years since XP was launched, Apple have come out with five
> | major upgrades to OS X, upgrades which (dare I say it?) install with about
> | as much effort as it takes to brush your teeth in the morning. No nightmare
> | calls to tech-support, no sudden hardware incompatibilities, no hassle. Why
> | hasn't Microsoft kept up? Unmaintainable"
> |
> | "Right now, Microsoft has nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. After all
> | the hype surrounding Vista, the Emperor has finally been revealed in all
> | his naked glory. Some folks have been predicting the demise of Microsoft. I
> | wouldn't go that far, but I am wondering how we?re ever going to take
> | Microsoft seriously again?"
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> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/29/vista_end_dream/
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> A history of Microsoft Windows - the inside story exposed
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> | 2004: (...)
> | THE MANAGEMENT: "What do you mean it still doesn't work? Try
> | harder!"
> |
> | 2005: (...)
> | "MAKE IT WORK! FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAKE IT WORK! Well, throw it away
> | and use the server version then, that seems all right. Look, they
> | won't know the difference, drop the database stuff, nobody remembers
> | what we said in 1995 now! That was ten years ago! "Apple has what?
> | 3D acceleration? So, we have DirectX. What, in the desktop? Really?
> | What, even Stallman's beardie-weirdies have it? Oh hell. Right, you
> | lot, make it look like this!"
> |
> | 2006: Windows Vista
> | THE MANAGEMENT: "Look, if we trickle it out to those mugs, I mean,
> | valued customers who've already paid, we can say we released it this
> | year and it'll buy us some more time..."
> |
> | 2007: No, really Windows Vista, honest
> | MARKETING DEPT: "Never mind the features, look at it! Isn't it shiny?
> | Yes! Pretty!"
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37962
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> Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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> | Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
> | island which is paralysed by coups.
> |
> | In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
> | Vista has "high impact" problems.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
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> MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
> Developers
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> | "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
> | architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
> | ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
> | core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
> | Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
> | Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
> | awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
> | come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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> http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isn...http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
FUCK Microsoft Windows, I'm done with them quite some time ago.
Citizen Jimserac
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