networkworld.com - 16 days ago
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A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft , but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination, that's an opinion to note. Keith Curtis, author of the book After the Software Wars , says just that. But he ...
withinwindows.com - 14 days ago
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withinwindows.com —
Update 11/7: The example I provided yesterday (ReadBytes)
was replaced with a new one. Note that it
is only an example. I’m not here to prove my case in a huge exhaustive post for you. That’s left as an exercise for the reader. GNU logo with ...
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Microsoft lifts GPL code, uses in Microsoft Store tool
microsoft.com - 12 days ago
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REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 9, 2009 — Microsoft
Corp. today announced that it will purchase the Teamprise-related
assets of SourceGear LLC, which enable developers using the Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, including Unix, Linux and ...
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Microsoft Acquires Teamprise Assets, Provides Cross
blogs.zdnet.com - 15 days ago
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Only suckers pay retail. You don't have to
pay full price for Widows 7. Most people have
much better options available, I've researched deals in three separate categories: upgrade offers available to anyone, special deals just for students, and ...
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Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or ...
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Ex-Microsoftie: Linux will destroy Windows
Preston Gralla's blog —
... , told an interviewer for Network World in a podcast that "I do believe that proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed." His reasoning in the interview isn't exactly clear, and he doesn't go into details about how he believes open source software will kill off Windows. Essentially, he believes that there's an inevitability to the concept of free, which will ultimately overwhelm for-pay software. He says that right now many people "think free software is a house of cards," and that needs to change before open source will become dominant. He admits, though, "I ...
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OStatic blogs —
... Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it. An ex-Microsoft employee says Windows is doomed, and FOSS will rule. ...
Could Microsoft switch to Linux?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog —
... did, that when someone says "proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed," and that Microsoft's future might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux that he's a Linux fan. Wrong, this prophet of Windows doom and gloom was Keith Curtis , a former Microsoft Research staffer. Could he be right? I think the answer is yes and no. Yes, proprietary software is on the decline. Forget about the free software ideology that holds that free access to code is morally right. Businesses have figured out that not only does open source tend to produce better code, it's ...
Is There Room for Microsoft at the Linux Table?
LinuxInsider —
... is at least partly to blame. Hmm, food for thought, indeed. Linux by Microsoft? Even more interesting, however, was the notion -- suggested, incredibly, by a former Microsoft employee -- that Microsoft needs to come out with its own version of Linux. Cough, cough, cough!! Yes, you did read that right. "I think we could all be running Microsoft Linux," former Microsoft Research employee Keith Curtis told Network World . "I sent an e-mail Increase Customer Sales with Email Marketing -- Free Trial from VerticalResponse to Steve Ballmer about this and he said he wasn't ...
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