[clug-talk] M$ revenue falls, open source "blamed"

[Chris Lusena]

--- On Thu, 8/6/09, TekBudda <tekbudda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't think MS had ANYTHING to do with the growth on
> Linux & OSS. Yes, when you are competing against the big
> boy on the block, you will try & imitate some of his
> moves.  But the only reason MS has any any measure of
> success is unfair business practises, purchasing superior
> packages & bundling them as their own...only to later
> mutate them into disfunctional blobs & eventually
> retiring them.

Other have contered this point but better than I.  My favorite is:
In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson.
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html


> 
> If anything MS has Apple, Xerox & others to thank for
> their success.  As  much as I dislike Apple
> sometimes I will say that they have provided much innovation
> in the tech world...even to the point of inventing markets
> & have created standards for other to strive for. 
> Linux has done this as well & the only way MS can
> "Create/innovate/improve" anything is to copy or outright
> steal from the competition.
> 
> MS is nothing more than a D grade teacher trying to compete
> with with 4.0 GPA's while trying to pas sthem selves off as
> Harvard Valedictorians.
> 
> <<SIGH>>  Rant over now.... :-)
> 
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