Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source 555
Attila Dimedici writes "Charles Babcock of Information Week published an interesting article suggesting that Microsoft will have to at least to some degree take Windows open source if they want to stay in business. He suggests that the money to be made from the things MS builds on top of Windows (Office, Server, SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint, etc.) is so much greater than what can be made from Windows itself that MS will have to give up the revenue stream from Windows in order to maintain these other, more valuable, revenue streams."
Ha hahaaa ha haha. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh goodness, that is so funny. Microsoft going open source with Windows.
Snort
Man, it hurts to laugh now.
Sure (Score:3, Funny)
and first step towards FOSS crowd, almost finished after 10 years in MS research labs, is FUCKING GRUB SUPPORT.
Re:Sure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The day Windows goes open source... (Score:3, Funny)
I was going to point out that Steve Ballmer has to die eventually, but then I realized that he'll still be sweating when he's in Hell...
Re:Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
[citation needed [wikipedia.org]].
Wishing doesn't make it so. The shift, if any, is to MacOS, which took an open source OS and locked the fucker down. I want a family sized blunt of whatever the article author is smoking.
Re:Nonsense (Score:2, Funny)
Re:There is too much money in Windows (Score:3, Funny)
They don't pay for the OS, noob: it comes free with the computer.
Look, you brought up PHBs. Let's not pretend that they're smarterer than they are.
Re:The day Windows goes open source... (Score:3, Funny)
Come on, Steve's not a bad guy.
He's just kind of crazy.
Re:New John Dvorak (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, if this was Dvorak it would have been like:
"Why Linux Must (and Will) Run on Windows By 2011"
Free is too expensive (Score:1, Funny)
When it comes to Windows, free is still too expensive.
Re:There is too much money in Windows (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft already has Linux labs, wherein they probably torture Linux installations to extract strategic information.
Re:Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft already has Linux labs, wherein they probably torture Linux installations to extract strategic information.
Fortunately most chipsets do not take well to waterboarding and the system is soon out of it's misery.
Re:Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
sudoapt-get install answers-devel
There fixed that for yah. No torture necessary, you just need ask the right way [xkcd.com].
Re:Nonsense (Score:1, Funny)
Get with the times - they used enhanced interrogation, not torture; it's only torture if it's done to punish.
Anyway, they don't need to punish the distros in their Redmond lairs^H^H^H^H^Hlabs - they already do that with NTFS.
Re:MS Linux (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but then the Microsoft version of Linux pops up a dialog box, and says:
Re:Nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
You're doing it wrong... (Score:2, Funny)
> Fortunately most chipsets do not take well to waterboarding and the system is soon out of it's misery.
Actually, they use mineral oil instead of water, but the word mineralboarding sounds funny.
Re:Nonsense (Score:1, Funny)
sudoapt-get install answers-devel
There fixed that for yah. No torture necessary, you just need ask the right way [xkcd.com].
I was thinking "sudo install devel-devel-devel-devel". www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE [youtube.com]
Re:Nonsense (Score:4, Funny)
sudoapt-get install answers-devel
There fixed that for yah. No torture necessary, you just need ask the right way [xkcd.com].
actually it would be "sudo apt-get install developers-developers-developers-developers"
Re:Nonsense (Score:2, Funny)
They don't need sudo if they're already running as super user.
Re:Experts saw it coming nine years ago. (Score:5, Funny)
Windows has consistently failed to deliver what customers want, but free software does that by definition
What, fail to deliver what customers want ?
Yeah right.. (Score:4, Funny)
And Coca-Cola should open source their recipee too! Cause they already have such a big market share that it would be impossible for anyone to beat them... C'mon!
Re:Nonsense (Score:3, Funny)
MS's revenue stream will increasingly become the annual license fee.
You missed the future tense there, didn't you?