> Richard Blackburn wrote:
> Hope the open source movement is strong enough to withstand the
> onslaught.
Probably an "old chestnut" (and thus I'm flaunting newbie ignorance
here), but read the following yesterday:
http://www.cnbc.com/home/001208plotkin.html
An exerpt:
Microsoft doesn't talk about its Linux strategy very much. But it
is an open secret in Silicon Valley that the company could rather
easily steal the thunder from faddishly popular Linux firms, such
as Caldera Systems Inc. {CALD} and Red Hat Inc. {RHAT}, at just
about anytime it chooses.
Microsoft could, in fact, co-opt the open-source movement the way it
co-opted the Web-browser business -- after it found that its
proprietary online technologies couldn't compete with the Internet
formats that Netscape was popularizing.
(...and why can't I get away from any reference to that bloody
"Survivor" show?)
Cheers
Marc
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