MS Feeling the Heat with FOSS
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| "Gates said students will want to try Microsoft's tools because they're more
| powerful than the open-source combination of Linux-based operating systems, |
| the Apache Web server, the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language used
| to make complex Web sites."
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| ...sounds like someone's in denial.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/2/19/36425
Watch the rest of the page. Others agree (more links at the bottom).
Is DreamSpark Somebody's Nightmare?
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| Microsoft is looking to get a whole lot back from its program. DreamSpark
| isn't charity. It's business--protecting Microsoft's entrenched
| desktop-and-server software business model from competing products, and, most
| importantly, from the Web 2.0 platform.
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http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/MicrosoftWatch/~3/237774043/is_dreamspark_somebodys_nightmare.html
Yesterday:
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
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| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
Microsoft's stingy DreamSpark program
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| DreamSpark would have been cool...20 years ago. Today it's an admission, as
| Glyn Moody writes, in "the plainest possible terms that its business model
| has failed." Sorry. Maybe you'll catch up next century.
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| These days, dear Mr. Gates, you must give away the core. No one is interested
| in mere complements anymore. Those are the tools necessary to drive revenue
| around the core being open sourced. Look around. Everyone (Google, Yahoo,
| MySQL, Red Hat, etc.) is doing it.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9874171-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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