[aclug-L] Re: Lies, twisted words, and big balls

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One addition to this... One reason Open Source is such a bennefit is b/c it
doesn't REQUIRE a single standard to be shared by "millions and millions of
machines."  Different types of hardware AND software are better able to
bennefit from each other and work together b/c of Open Source.  We don't
need a single "standard" hardware platform for Open Source to be successful. 
I'm not sure what Gates' alleged quote was really supposed to mean.  *shrug*


On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:54:41PM -0600, David Wiebe wrote:
> 
> The scientific community has been essentially open source for decades, if not 
> centuries.  I haven't heard anyone complaining that there are no scientific 
> jobs available.
> 
> As for his taking credit for providing a platform for open source, if memory 
> serves it was IBM which produced the "millions and millions of machines" and 
> they essentially "open sourced" the specs to boot!
> 
> On Friday 09 November 2001 14:49, you wrote:
> > From an article in the Seattle Times
> > about Micro$oft's shareholders meeting on Nov. 7th:
> > -----------------------------------------
> > At the same time, Ballmer and Gates made it clear they won't
> > embrace the free "open source" software backed by some industry
> > players, including IBM.
> >
> > Gates said there's a role for free software alongside commercial
> > software, but the open-source movement taken to its extreme would
> > mean no software jobs or taxes paid by software companies, and it
> > would mean companies such as Microsoft would not risk investing in
> > advanced products.
> >
> > Gates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source
> > software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing
> > computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is
> > because we came in and said there should be a platform that's
> > identical with millions and millions of machines," he said.
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
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