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Sat, 03 Apr 2004
You Are Open Source Or You Are Owned By The Man
From Slashdot (by SirChive (229195) on Friday April 02, @08:02AM):
This show us, once again, that Microsoft can and will buy whatever it wants. Sun now lives on the Redmond food chain. They toe the line or, in the end, they die. There is only one way to survive against an entity that controls a bottomless pile of cash. That is to NOT be for sale. Any for-profit enterprise, like Sun, is for sale and the Gates machine can buy whatever it wants. But Gates and his horde can't buy Linux; they can't buy Open Source, they can't buy Free Software. This scares them and, in that, lies our only hope.I, Cringely also has a similar view about Microsoft, their bottomless pile of cash, and the legal system. He claims that that US$600 million is the amount by which Microsoft increases its cash hoard in two weeks. A parking ticket indeed! posted at: 11:28 | path: /computers/microsoft | permanent link to this entry
Thu, 26 Feb 2004
I first saw this word when reading Fast Food Nation referring to potato and beef farmers who are basically just contractors managing someone else's land.
Tim Bray has a nice piece on sharecropping as it applies to software development on proprietary platforms. posted at: 10:10 | path: /computers/microsoft | permanent link to this entry
Fri, 19 Sep 2003
posted at: 13:49 | path: /computers/microsoft | permanent link to this entry