Perens Dispels More Microsoft FUD
from the good-for-him dept
A good article (as you would expect) over at News.com by Bruce Perens explaining why Microsoft's Craig Mundie is simply lying when he says that open source systems are bad for business. Once again, this is a situation very similar to the music industry, where a company seems to feel that once they have some profits, the government should feel obligated to require them to be profitable, no matter what the circumstances and no matter what's in the best interest of everyone else.
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