Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Microsoft's annual report: A study in open-source awareness...and ignorance
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>>| In reading through Microsoft's annual report, I am struck by how far the
>>| company has come in appreciating the threat that open source brings to
>>| Redmond.
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>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10005379-16.html
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> I'm also shocked by just how ill-informed the company continues to be
> with regard to open source as a business strategy. Steve Ballmer has
> revealed this before in his quips about "Open source won't pay our
> bills," but here Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a
> public document: . . .
>
Well, when you've become used to a taxation-based model, then actually
working for money probably won't pay your bills, because your bills are
probably too high.
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