On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andy Sy wrote: > > Long before Microsoft learned the "importance of sharing code," it > > learned that to beat any competitor, it should "embrace and extend" > > that competitor's technology. Want to take over the Internet? Embrace > > Web browsing technology with a free browser, Internet Explorer, that's > > incorporated into the operating system, and extend it with proprietary > > "enhancements" that make other browsers look bad. It worked. > > No it didn't work...
Tell that to Netscape. M$ managed to make Netscape LOOK bad even though IE was not really needed to access most websites. But the strategy worked. > If Microsoft's open-sourced code is of high quality, its purpose general > enough, and its *license sufficiently liberal*, then it wouldn't be > derailing the spirit of open source, it would be helping it. I think M$ code may not be any of the above, especially your last one. God bless! -- Please sign the petition against Senator Panfilo Lacson http://www.petitiononline.con/no2ping/ --[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philippine League for Democratic Telecommunications, Inc. "Affordable Access for All" --[Open Minds Philippines]-----------[http://openminds.linux.org.ph]-- -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
