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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: sime on 16 September 2003, 00:32

Title: Open Source on the Brink
Post by: sime on 16 September 2003, 00:32

In the next five years, open source "is going to take [the government] market away from Microsoft completely," predicts Eben Moglen, Columbia University law professor and Free Software Foundation general counsel.

And spot on he is too... Can't wait matey!  :D

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22278.html (http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22278.html)

Bye, bye Billy boy... oh and take that crap software with ya!

Sime

Title: Open Source on the Brink
Post by: flap on 16 September 2003, 01:02

Actually it looks like he will have been talking about Free Software, not Open Source, but they've misleadingly edited his quotes to make it look like he was talking about OSS. Which is a bit naughty.

Title: Open Source on the Brink
Post by: Seth on 16 September 2003, 01:51

You don't expect Microsoft to wait around for the executioner's ax to fall, do you ?
I am sure they have an exit strategy already planned.