“There are times when I wonder about the sanity of those in the
software industry. There are times when I wonder about the sanity
of governments. When the two collide, in my humble opinion, no good
will come of it.”
“Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was
quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any
Linux user to go and read it if you haven’t already, as it’s great
comedy material.”
“According to the hive mind of Microsoft, open source should be
made illegal. There’s no way around it, this is the bottom line.
Want to write your own code and release it into the community?
Congratulations, come with us Sir/Madam, we have this nice little
grey room for you. Don’t worry about the bars on the windows, they
are there for our protection in case you somehow manage to write a
graphics viewer or a Perl script to terrorize the world.”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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