[CoLoCo] The Beginning of the End

[David L. Willson]

That would be the best.  Then those that want to choose Microsoft can do
so without that choice hurting the rest of us.  Microsoft can go as fast
and far as they want, but nobody will be chained to an oar.  Business
owners and independents will finally be free.  Yay!  Go MS-GPL!

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 15:20 -0500, TheZorch wrote:
> This likely would never happen in a million years but Microsoft could 
> maybe develop their own Linux distro rather than continue developing 
> Windows.  This could be a good or bad thing, but it would force them to 
> play nice with FOSS because if they do develop a Linux OS they will be 
> required to honor the GNU License and cannot wrap Linux up in one of 
> their own restrictive licenses.
> 
> Just my imagination doing weird things.
> 
> Kevin Fries wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:56 -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> >   
> >> I think they will hold on for quite a few years to come. They have
> >> momentum. But vista may be their undoing and the yahoo thing may speed
> >> up the process. I just read that no one is too excited about SP1
> >> either. Apple and Linux seem to be on the uptake and windows is going
> >> the other direction. If this continues ms my find windows in the 50%
> >> range in not too many years. Something I for one would love to see.
> >>     
> >
> > I absolutely agree.  Everyone here at CCT laughs when I put it this way:
> >
> > "Microsoft has already sewn the seeds of their own destruction, and are
> > basically dead in the water... But they are so large, the body hasn't
> > stopped twitching yet."
> >
> > But Microsoft's destruction has nothing to do with their technology (and
> > yet their technology is such a good reason to be destroyed, lol), but
> > instead business realities.  Crushing Mac and Linux will only get them
> > taken over by the government (and you thought they were bad NOW!).  Not
> > crushing Mac and Linux will keep them in a battle to pay for R&D while
> > FOSS software has no such cost.  To truly embrace FOSS like Apple did
> > (LDAP, Apache, MySQL, etc), will force Microsoft to then justify their
> > cost.  Even if Microsoft does what they need to to compete world wide;
> > with the adoption of Linux in the third world, let alone the first
> > world, will force them to be a company that will no longer resemble
> > Microsoft.  Either way, that body will be twitching for some time, but
> > less and less as time goes on.
> >
> > Just my $0.02
> >   
> 
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