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Microsoft to argue against free code | |
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| Time: 10:27 EST/15:27 GMT | News Source: Wall Street Journal | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Craig Mundie, a Microsoft senior vice president, plans to talk about the company's "shared source" program in a scheduled talk with students and faculty at New York University's Stern School of Business, a Microsoft spokesman confirmed. Until recently, Microsoft closely guarded its source code, the underlying instructions used to create valuable products like its flagship Windows operating system. But the company has started to let computer makers and software developers see more code, particularly for its Windows 2000 product. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/3/2001 5:34:00 PM |
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#3: Free as in beer isn't the same as free as in speech. MS and Netscape both still maintained IP rights on their products. MS didn't try to give browser technology away so anyone could write their browser. Besides, Netscape had a flawed business model and were already in the process of deconstructing themselves. In the real world, where the rest of us live in, people throw challenges at us every day, and we overcome them. Apparently Netscape thought that when challenges were thrown at them, they could just cry to the Government and they would fix all their problems. Do you still go running to mommy when someone throws an obstacle at you? |
| #2 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/3/2001 11:01:00 PM |
| #5: Good point. There is very little real innovation in the OSS community. It's basically rehashing 20+ year old ideas from Unix and/or mainframe days and updating them slightly, or glacialy updating 20+ year old apps and ideas. What little real movement there is (like Eazel) is either a direct copy in part or in whole of Microsoft software (look at WinXP and Nautilus side by side). |
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