Open Source is bad... except when Microsoft uses it
Back in January 2005, Bill Gates took a back-handed slap at open-source saying, "There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises." Where he says "modern-day sort of communists," think "open-source advocates."
Fast forward to April 2006. Eric S. Raymond, the main man behind the idea of open-source, the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the seminal work on open-source, has just discovered that Microsoft is now selling a vector-graphics editor "Microsoft Expressions," which includes some of his open-sourced work.
Microsoft, the anti-open-source company, is using open-source software from one of open-source's leading lights. You've got to love it.
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