Category: OSS

From the Bankok Post:

“The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn’t exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today.” Controversial statements from the head of Microsoft’s Linux Labs, Bill Hilf.

Full article here.

Imagine my shock at Microsoft’s Bill Hilf coming out and saying that free software is dead. What is next… the RIAA saying all music collectors are criminals?

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Information Week released a story yesterday which details Google’s recent contribution to MySQL.

What I find interesting about this is that it points to how Open Source isn’t free… as a matter of fact it requires an investment model similar in kind (but not magnitude) to any “Packaged Enterprise Application”.

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