It is telling, in my opinion, that this most recent announcement was delivered by Microsoft's chief counsel and not by the marketing department or the corporate spin specialist, Steve Ballmer. The announcement is obviously intended to try to make an impression on legal types, not Open Source or user types. You will notice that most of Microsoft's Open Source announcements seem more attuned to legalities than to anything else.How long are people going to be less than likely to believe what Microsoft says? Well, I suppose at least as long as they have been telling half-truths in matters like this. Or, perhaps as long as they have been promising compliance and delivering nothing but the promises themselves. In other words, Microsoft is going to have to prove that it has some walk to go along with the talk.
I'm not sure that they are capable of that any more, anyway, so it may take some virtual forever.
wow... a very smart capitalist company creates better products and succeeds in the US and the world and people need to go after them. Microsoft Windows is a very open OP, much more so than Mac, and they let third parties openly create programs for their OPs. Just because you are not smart enough to start a company that does well don't bash the people who are. Microsoft and Walmart made it, they achieved the American capitalist dream and all people can do is try to arrest them.
Posted by: Wyatt | May 31, 2008 11:37 AM | Permalink to Comment