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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Software is Crippled by Design

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Software is Crippled by Design
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:06:56 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
The Problem with Crippleware

,----[ Quote ]
| What Microsoft wants is that the third party products, whether written 
| by hobbyists or professionals, serve Microsoft's business model, not 
| their own.
| 
| Microsoft has always had great developer programs, and even at the CEO 
| level, they get why developers matter. (Can you imagine any CEO other 
| than Steve Ballmer doing his famous sweat-soaked "Developers, developers, 
| developers" chant? If you can, I apologize for the visual.) But I  
| think increasingly, Microsoft is running into the limits of its own 
| model. It's seeking grassroots support to compete against the growing 
| momentum in open source, and it's at a disadvantage. 
`----

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/07/the_problem_wit_3.html

Yesterday's survey revealed that Windows developers and flocking to Linux.


Context:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39287310,00.htm?r=1

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