Sorry, this should have been sent to the list.
DP
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "David-Paul Niner" <dpniner dpniner.net>
To: "Karel Miklav" <karellovetemple.net>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:26:48 AM GMT -05:00
US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karel Miklav" <karellovetemple.net>
To: freebsd-advocacyfreebsd.org
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:31:24 PM GMT -05:00
US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer
Konrad Heuer wrote:
> Knowing what happened when M$ bought Hotmail - FreeBSD
was gradually
> replaced by Windows - I fear that one very famous
commercial user
> (and sponsor?) of FreeBSD will move away from FreeBSD.
I don't really know, but...
1. the last Microsoft OS experiment didn't end that well.
Their
process is rigid and costly.
2. the satellite commercial BSD project OS X is a
success.
3. Microsoft is trying to enter the UNIX market.
4. Microsoft is trying to reap the benefits of the open
source
community.
5. FreeBSD has a very corporate-friendly license plus
skilled
and handy community.
6. every major IT company has their free pet by now, but
there
seem to be a thorn in Microsoft / Novell relationship
and it
is GPL 3.
7. the FreeBSD Fundation is "Providing legal support
on issues
like understanding the GPLv3"...
It could go in either direction, if it's for the better
depends
upon your expectations.
------
First, I don't honestly believe Yahoo! wants this
acquisition to go through. While these are big numbers MS
is proposing, it would basically spell the end of the Yahoo!
culture. MS is inherently unable to understand that there
are wiser ways of doing business. They would force Yahoo!
to comply w/ their ideas and it would implode.
The upside to this is that I can't imagine all the real
technical talent at Yahoo! wanting to work for Microsoft.
That would make ripe pickings for Google, the only other
game in town. What better scenario for those folk.
There have been rumblings that this is merely Microsoft's
way of getting their hands on a lot of BSD talent, in hopes
of either developing their own Unix-like product to
improving the interopperability(sp?) of Windows. If the
former is the case, it will be moot. Windows typifies
Microsoft's idea of what an OS should be, UNIX would be far
too great a paradigm shift for them to ever be successful,
unless they somehow ousted Balmer (A very real possibility
in my eyes, I believe he's becoming less popular internally
as time passes). At this point in time, Bill Gates is no
real threat to anyone and would probably align himself with
the better technology if given the chance. He's a coder at
heart, after all.
At any rate, a formal alliance w/ Google might mitigate the
MS threat. Google is the immovable object.
DP
--
Regards,
Karel Miklav
_______________________________________________
freebsd-advocacyfreebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advo
cacy
To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribefreebsd.org"
_______________________________________________
freebsd-advocacyfreebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advo
cacy
To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribefreebsd.org"
|
