Microsoft confirms: 'We're losing to Linux, open source'
In case you thought that Microsoft was winning in the war against open source, you just need to read Bill HIlf's quotes to see that Microsoft clearly feels that it's losing. Big time. You don't go as negative on Apple as Gates has unless you're worried that you're losing. You don't bash open source as being...just like Microsoft unless you're worried that it is racing ahead.
Bill, looking for the soundbite that he got, says:
The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today. [Hilf further argued that he was trying to] be descriptive and intelligent in giving people an understanding of open source and debunk a lot of the mythology around open source.
Unfortunately, Bill, you only managed to show the paucity of your understanding of open source. You clearly don't get it and, like Microsoft, are stuck in a retro view of what open source means.
"Linus has a job"?
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