2 Jun
2018
2 Jun
'18
5:26 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 01:40:31PM +0200, Louigi Verona wrote:
The reason I bring these points up is because I feel
that Microsoft is
singled out unfairly. It is not a bad company and it has a lot of pretty
good products, and its behavior is not governed by evil intent, but rather
by a complex interaction of business incentives, government regulation and
corporate structure that is necessary to manage a large company. That does
not mean this mix of incentives does not create negative results - it does
sometimes - but I feel that in the FLOSS community many see it as almost a
conspiracy by someone in Microsoft to destroy the world. Which is just
untrue.
"The intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in open-source
software has benefits that are not replicable with our current
licensing model and therefore present a long-term developer
mindshare threat."
They are now playing ball (gone are the days of "kill HTML by
extending it"), but trust issues remain
-F