Thread: Microsoft, your platform is on fire
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lohner is offline lohner
2011-06-27 , 00:56
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Hi there.

I have so many questions for you.

But let's just start at point number one. Can you provide some backup to this 'fact': (links or urls are preferable)



Let alone your inference that higher-ups in MS also get 'brainwashed', even though Elop was there for relatively brief period.
If I may try to answer this...

"brainwashed" I think means:
  • Being on a different business model than free software companies (like e.g. Google, altough this is not the perfect example, a better one would be Red Hat)
  • Having to sustain the business model to survive
  • Therefore having to fight free software, because it is the biggest threat to their existence (they make all their money with Windows and Office)
  • Read for example "The cathedral and the bazaar", search for Eben Moglen or Richard Stallman talks on Youtube if you like to dig into this deeper

Doesn't it seem logical, that under these conditions, every employee gets a different kind of world view than a free software hacker?
 

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