In comp.os.linux.advocacy, amicus_curious
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on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:01:23 -0400
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> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Microsoft's doing pretty well at surviving. ;-) But
>> they might have to step up their game plan at some point,
>> and completely obliterate the very idea of FOSS -- which
>> would be the rough equivalent of barbed wire taming the
>> Wild Wild West.
>>
> Well, that is a hypothetical that has not had a lot of potential so far. I
> think the freebie notion of open source is more of a detriment to those who
> might oppose Microsoft commercially than to Microsoft itself. If you wanted
> to start a competitive product, you would be up against the OSS stuff as an
> equal and that would give you more problems than being a giant in opposition
> to a dwarf gives to Microsoft. As someone keeps pointing out here, there
> multiple hundreds of millions of units shipping each year, the vast majority
> being Windows machines and to just address that sort of volume credibly
> requires some vast resources to be in place before anyone will put any
> reliance on your proposal. Linux suppliers such as Red Hat and Novell,
> etc., do not command that kind of credibility.
>
Correct. Of course, they do represent a thorn in
Microsoft's side, a thorn that can draw blood (and also
wake them up -- the essence of competition, as it were).
DRM is not doing well, either, though the iPhone is
making a brave show of it.
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