OT: (maybe): article [at computerworld.com] about Microsoft [and the] "open-source community"

[James Finstrom]

Well open source is not a bunch of hippies in their basements it is big
business.
-Novell
-IBM
-Sun
-Adobe

All these companies know they have to alter their courses and freedom is not
why. Piracy has become second nature in society and with the upcoming
generations the concept of spending money for digital goods is just an odd
concept. The open source people say hey here its free, and people say so
what this too is free. You will loose a well no its not battle and frankley
these big companies are coming to a realization so will they. The business
models are changing and you will see all these companies bating hooks to
lure you in. Once you come in the door slams behind you and a mob of clowns
shows up and well the rest is just too much to reviel.

James Finstrom




On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:

> article title: "Microsoft reverses course, becomes more open to
> open-source community"
> This article
> (see "
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Software&articleId=331289&taxonomyId=18
> ")
> mentions that "Microsoft Corp. bought Powerset Inc. in July", and
> discusses what that might mean for the future.
> (apparently, Powerset used to [and -- I guess -- still does]
> contribute open-source code [and maybe other help] to [quote:] "the
> Apache Software Foundation's Hadoop project.").
> My 0.02:
> When allowing any company -- who "might" have some ulterior motives --
> to "contribute code to" (and, otherwise "influence") any open-source
> project, it seems logical that the people who care about the project,
> might want to be extra careful about what changes they allow from that
> source.
> --
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
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