“For such people, Microsoft hate is an excuse for a distinct
lack of introspection, and credits Microsoft with far better
execution and strategy than it actually possesses.“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a goofy laugh. I’m not sure
it’s an evil one.“I mention Microsoft because some within the open-source
community quickly pounced on the company’s inadvertent violation of
the GPL in its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Microsoft’s Peter
Galli was quick to acknowledge it:“”[The license violation] was not intentional on our part. While
we had contracted with a third party to create the tool, we share
responsibility as we did not catch it as part of our code review
process.”
The convenient fiction that Microsoft is evil
By
Matt Asay
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