Day 2 of the KMDI Open Source conference started with Robert F. Young, cofounder of Red Hat, Inc. presenting a positive view about open source business models. At the end of a conference day lasting nearly 13 hours, Young returned to deliver the conference’s keynote address. In between, Jason Matusow of Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative gave attendees a very differernt point of view about the value of open source in the enterprise. Read the report here.
Also, Microsoft has refined its image after a ruling from European antitrust regulators. It is now attempting to portray itself as a consumer’s best friend, rather than the bullying monopolist it is being made out to be.
Where’s the link?? I’m considerably more interested in what Robert Young of RH has to say about open source than whatever Jason Matusow has to say about it.
Day 2 of the KMDI Open Source conference started with Robert F. Young, cofounder of Red Hat, Inc. presenting a positive view about open source business models. At the end of a conference day lasting nearly 13 hours, Young returned to deliver the conference’s keynote address.
The MS links are here, why not the RH link??
1. In between, Jason Matusow of Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative gave attendees a very differernt point of view about the value of open source in the enterprise.
2. Also, Microsoft has refined its image after a ruling from European antitrust regulators.
And I couldn’t care less about MS “image building”.
There is no effort to portray Microsoft as a bullying monopolist. That’s what I call a statement of fact. Some people like it, some people don’t care, but it remains true either way.
Sometimes I wonder if these sentences are due to Eugenia’s English as a second language situation.
You obviously didn’t follow the link. The statement came from the original news article, not Eugenia.
Microsoft is an Oligopoly not a Monopoly
Instead of changing thier actions, or their software, they change thier “marketting strategy” , pathetic.
Redmond is not relevant anymore and they know it. Nor is it’s marketing.
Nothing like trying to sell the same fliped-over-rebuilt-darned “closed source” code.
They waste more in one day of advertising and litigation than most countries in world do in one year’s GNP. How sad.
Go Linux and BSD!
I’m not sure I would call Microsoft an “oligopoly”, as an oligopoly implies a discrete few companies working together to screw the market.
But they’re certainly not a monopoly, either. Monopolies, by definition, control things which do not have substitutes. Windows has a substitute in the form of Linux, at least right now. Perhaps that wasn’t true a few years ago, but it is today.
-Erwos
I’ve always thought M$’s play much more like RISK! than Monopoly.
I did follow the link. You obviously have reading comprehension problems. The first paragraph says that the EU in Belgium is protraying Microsoft as a “bullying monopolist”. Eugenia generalized it herself.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. It doesn’t matter if there are substitute goods — if one agency controls the means of distribution they are a monopolist.