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Microsoft's Ballmer: "Linux Requires Our Concentrated Focus and Attention" (LinuxWorld.com)

Microsoft's Ballmer: "Linux Requires Our Concentrated Focus and Attention" (LinuxWorld.com)

Posted May 1, 2004 13:38 UTC (Sat) by Dark_Vader (guest, #21304)
In reply to: Microsoft's Ballmer: "Linux Requires Our Concentrated Focus and Attention" (LinuxWorld.com) by mmarsh
Parent article: Microsoft's Ballmer: "Linux Requires Our Concentrated Focus and Attention" (LinuxWorld.com)

The whole open source community lacks innovation. What the community does well is create clones of other commercial products; you would rarely find innovation taking place in the open source community. And the most innovative creations which now have an open source face because they were released under the GPL did not even start as with an intention to create an open source product, but were build by individuals and research groups within universities (who were then not part of the open source community and the motivation was not to create clones). And these innovative creations include Linux, X Windows, PGP and various file systems, databases and various other products. You find innovation in research groups within universities and commercial organisation but not in the open source community. How ever they do have an extremely good set of programmers who are very good at building clones of innovative applications. Stop acting like brats who’s only motivation is to create Microsoft clones and start digging your heads.


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