BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete, Winblad says
Venture capitalist Ann Winblad said open source and open standards has made life tough for Microsoft’s co-founder and other kingpins that used to rule the software industry.
“The beauty of the software industry today is that not one, two or three companies that control the agenda. This is hard for the incumbents to deal with,” said Winblad, when asked by MIT Technology Review editor Jason Pontin at MIT Emerging Technologies Conference Thursday why her friend Bill Gates claims to back open standards but can’t bring himself to support them in his products.
Winblad carefully avoided commenting on BillG’s reluctance to embrace open standards but hinted that the company’s position will likely not change for some time to come.
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