Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)

Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)

Posted Jul 31, 2003 23:31 UTC (Thu) by euvitudo (subscriber, #98)
In reply to: Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) by wweber
Parent article: Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)

*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.

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