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Posted on 10/03/2005 3:47:36 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
When will Microsoft stake some of its resources on open-source software? When the product in question helps Windows sales and takes market share from IBM.
That was the impetus behind a technical deal struck last week in which Microsoft will fly engineers from software company JBoss Inc. to Redmond, Wash., to make sure JBoss' open-source, Java-based middleware runs well on Windows, SQL Server, and other Microsoft products. JBoss sells its products under an open-source GNU Public License that Microsoft has criticized as a threat to intellectual-property ownership, and its technology is based on the Java 2 Enterprise standard that competes with Windows as a development platform. But Microsoft said the deal is meant to help a small software company that influences sales of Windows server software.
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Competing.
Don't see what the big deal here is.
" Don't see what the big deal here is."
Well, they're working with Godless commies, for one.
Open source companies are nothing more than fronts for the communist party. Or that's what I hear.
And then, often as not, swallowing or trampling to death in court after they have absorbed the technology. It's tough to resist, just ask Stac Electronics (the former that is).
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So you're saying that MS will become a middleware company after a while?
Of course they did. That's because Dvorak and the rest of merry media at the time (early-mid 90s) bashed MS nonstop on features left out of the operating system.
So they kept adding stuff and adding stuff and adding stuff. Stac/Doublespace was just one of many.
"I am Billcutus of borg. You will be assimilated."
My wife may complain that I need to make more money.
That's not an excuse for me to steal it.
Which is exactly what Microsoft did to Stac.
"Which is exactly what Microsoft did to Stac."
15 years ago and MS paid. Get over it.
Past behavior is indicative of future behavior.
"Past behavior is indicative of future behavior."
That would mean there isn't a corporation to be truested. Not a single solitary one has a clean history, not one.
Correct. But some of them are even less trustworthy than others. Enron, The Rose Lawfirm, SCO and Microsoft all immediately come to mind.
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