17.Feb.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft Fires Contra Open Source
«How does the evil come to earth? With Open Source, if one wants to
believe Microsoft's chief for Windows, Jim Allchin. Open Source could
smother each and every innovation; it "destroys intellectual property",
said Allchin, and politicians would have to recognize this danger.
Open source would be the death of any inducement to invest in research and
development. Allchin "cannot imagine anything more worse for the software
business". Withal he equates open source like the free operating system
Linux with music exchange services á la Napster - an argument which immediately has
been intensely offended by the open source community.»
Complete article under the title link (German).
Does somebody suggest business competition facing him? Supposedly yes.
I wonder what you think about that. Personally I see great chances in open source to
realize great projects. The Internet is best evidence for that and Linux meantime
has got a huge community of rooters.
[News message: 17. Feb. 2001, 16:03] [Comments: 0]
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