If you use windows, there is only one source. [LWN.net]

If you use windows, there is only one source.

Posted Oct 22, 2004 15:10 UTC (Fri) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)
In reply to: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times) by aleXXX
Parent article: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

If you use windows, there is only one source.

Unless that source is released on, say, some rogue website by a source code licensee.

Which brings up another point: if your OS wasn't built with the knowledge the source code would be made public, pray it never will.

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If you use windows, there is only one source.

Posted Oct 22, 2004 18:54 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

In Windows/Longhorn !?...

" Unless that source is released on, say, some rogue website by a source code licensee. "

Rest assured that will never happen,...
Microsoft will not gain more control for doing that,...
What they could possibly do is release an old stripped down version as "freeware". But even that i belive will never happen because Open Source applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice create a hell of a pressure on their market,..., not to mention things like coLinux and possible "shell replacements" based on Gnome or KDE...

Microsoft only have two ways for total and absolute control now:
1)is to make Open Source illegal,...
2)Create a totally impenetrable and totally incompatible platform, at least in a "Certifiable" formal way...

The other ways they will start to lose more each time, and faster.

I belive, is the 2) what they are trying to do with Longhorn/NGSCB/Paladium: a 'certifiable' DRM based lock.
But Open Standards arround the 'Internet' prevent effectiveness of the lock. So they'll try first to own the WEB by the means of XAML and other XML patented projects... a Desktop manouver to own it all, server included!

(this kind of articles shouldn't surprise anyone no more!)