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Microsoft: Never Open Source
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| Users that are holding their breath waiting for an open source Windows 7,
| Windows 8 or Office 14 are advised to exhale. Going against a hugely popular
| saying, Microsoft is firm in saying "never" to open source. Chief Executive
| Officer Steve Ballmer had a single answer to a question presented at the
| Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 regarding the possibility that
| the company's flagship products will veer away from its current proprietary
| business mode. "No!"
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Never-Open-Source-89756.shtml
"Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer [...] I can't imagine
something that could be worse than this for the software business and the
intellectual-property business. I'm an American; I believe in the American
way, I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've
done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
"There’s no company called Linux, there’s barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux
sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had, you know, the
characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it.
That is, it’s free."
--Steve Ballmer
"Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone
can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the
US Department of Defense."
--Richard Stallman
Related:
Ten Tech Blunders: Whoops, We Stepped in It!
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| In a horrible case of foot-in-mouth that revealed deep fear behind
| a thin mask of disdain, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer compared Linux
| to cancer. Ouch!
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/11070_3679516_1
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