On 12-Apr-08, at 11:35 AM, Manish wrote: >> This is so wrong statement. >> >> Man, Go and read Cathedral and Bazaar again. >> >> For rest of ILUGD crowd. FLOSS community has nothing to do with >> microsoft >> and microsoft is just another properiatery software company. If >> microsoft >> talks about Open source, no big deal >> > > ROTFLMAO. *wiping tears*. Thank you. > > Oh, you are serious, aren't you. > > Kenneth was being sarcastic, bro, because Free Software does not need > recognition/approval from entities like Gartner[1] to be meaningful.
I was not really being sarcastic. Fact is Microsoft has changed it's attitude towards OSS - they tried to kill it and did not succeed. If you can't beat them - join them. They have now decided to take over the OSS movement and corrupt it from within. They have already got a couple of their licenses approved by OSI and are making moves to get on the OSI board. They will have a large presence in OSCON too. We all saw how they bought ISO and got that crap OOXML approved as a standard. It *is* a big deal. Go look at the photos of OSIW to see who all are hobnobbing with M$ in India today. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
