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Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)Posted Jul 31, 2003 21:40 UTC (Thu) by wweber (guest, #11678)Parent article: Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) This can't be a good sign. If MicroSoft is making that deeply detailed a study of Linux internals, my suspicion is that they are looking for ways to impair interoperability on the Internet. If they find a way to subtly "customize" their Internet protocols to totally hose any *nix/Linux systems trying to talk to them, while keeping within the letter of the open standards for such protocols, they'll gain a selling point. Does anyone rememember "MicroSoft Kerberos"?
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Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Posted Jul 31, 2003 23:31 UTC (Thu) by euvitudo (subscriber, #98) [Link] *sigh*I look forward to the day that we (i.e., the FLOSS community) are not "following the leader". Hopefully the trend we have seen this year, of more FLOSS adoption, will continue and increase. If your comment is true, then maybe that day will be fairly soon. As more companies and users adopt FLOSS, MS will have to learn to interoperate properly with FLOSS systems rather than find ways to shut them out, or be left out in the cold. However, history as shown that as corporations become very big, their interest in the common good and well-being of their own clients diminishes. When this happens, their vision becomes "how much money can we extract from our customers with minimal update to our current product" rather than "how can we MAKE a better product for our customers". Hopefully when the FLOSS movement gains ground and becomes the leading motivator for standards compliance in software and hardware systems, then we will finally see the corporations gain more interest in what their users truly want.
Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Posted Aug 1, 2003 10:05 UTC (Fri) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link] "If they find a way to subtly "customize" their Internet protocols to totally hose any *nix/Linux systems trying to talk to them"What about the Java fiasco? Are M$ actually shipping a standards-compliant Java with Internet Explorer yet, or just their own broken version? How many e-commerce sites have you come across that won't work with Opera/Mozilla/Netscape because they have been coded to use only M$'s broken version of Java? I'm aware of quite a few ... when contacted, the web admins of these sites (at least, the few who bother to reply) state that their concern is for the majority market, they're simply not (much) worried if a few "screwballs" can't use their site. It's already happened. Anti-trust legislation has been tried but hasn't worked. In any case, by the time the legal process has ground to its conclusion, the point is moot, as technology has moved on & M$ have a virtual monopoly. So M$ are free to continue to tighten their stranglehold. Any ideas?
Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Posted Aug 1, 2003 12:02 UTC (Fri) by wweber (guest, #11678) [Link] Those Web admins could have come from the Merrimack Valley! :-) Anyway, this should be a heads-up to programmers to develop analysis tools that can detect "lock-in features" that MicroSoft servers will one day be adding to their servers' protocols.
Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Posted Aug 1, 2003 14:10 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] Make more effort to prevent dumbo's from voting for the likes of Ralph Nader next time?
Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Posted Aug 1, 2003 14:16 UTC (Fri) by lpbbear (guest, #4827) [Link] If more "dumbos" had voted for Ralph Nader we wouldn't be worrying about Microsoft right now. :)
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