Hello, On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 00:18 +0200, Omar Hafez wrote: > Yes Faisal, unfortunately, what you have said is true. > > But again, I still wonder, why do you guys not agree with me when I > say that this is one of the advantages of the Open Source world. > > If Microsoft's staff reaches the number 20000 or 70000, or more, do > not forget that the Open Source world might contain the remaining > number of Web professionals in the globe. > If we manage to gather as much support as we can, we might be able to > do something similar to that happening in Operating Systems world.
emm, are we talking about an open source search engine here? there are many lying around. Yahoo is not a search engine it is a portal (among other things), I very very rarely use yahoo, but I guess it's an icon; a random writes software to fulfil his needs, gets it on the Internet and suddenly gets lots of money out of it! Yahoo were the first(?) to make it to Fortune 500, as far as I remember! and to see microsoft buy them out annoys me because of what Yahoo is to the internet in this sense. Another worry I have, is will microsoft kill zimbra? hope not. anyways, I hope the directors at yahoo dont sell. > Linus Torvalds did not make Linux as strong as it is now all by > himself, we all know that hundreds if not thousands of corporations > and individuals are involved in the rapid evolution of our beloved > revolution OS. Dell and IBM are some of these. hehe, IBM! > So if we can do the same to a search engine, I think Microsoft will > not stand a chance. I do hate microsoft, but I dont think they are the enemy! We should be worrying about software patents, our rights online, intellectual property and freedom to share, modify and evolve! Microsoft will eventually have to give in (like IBM did to PCs), but that is not the target (not for me anyways). > Let me explain a bit more, let's take the Middle East for example. > I, personally, think that the Arab world must not be isolated from all > this. > How about if Maktoob.com and Ayna.com join forces, I know they both > are still too far from the competition. But if we manage to gather as > much support as possible, and keep in mind that we have large > workforce in this field. You lost me here! but yeah, no one should be isolated from this (open source, freedom, call it what you want). Or do you want them to join forces to become a competitor to microsoft? i would love to see that! Peace, Seif A.
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