Três coisas sobre as quais Steve Ballmer (e Brad Smith) estão enganados a respeito de Software Livre e Aberto

Dica de leitura do SunMink de Simon Phipps (Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems) para o texto de Stephen Walli ("Three Things Steve Ballmer (and Brad Smith) Get Wrong about Free and Open Source Software").

Phipps ainda tece o seguinte comentário (na minha tradução livre):

"Steph vai direto ao ponto. Aqueles são apenas argumentos ruins (de Ballmer e Brad Smith) e uma tentativa de moldar a falha da Microsoft em encontrar um modelo de negócio mínimamente decente e que tenha alguma sinergia com o FOSS."

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"If Microsoft really wants to prove once and for all that customers should really care about paying for patents separate from their solutions, then Microsoft should go sue a customer over Linux systems that allegedly infringe their patents. It would need to be a customer that clearly has a large installed base of roll-your-own-Linux systems. They should go sue Google. Or Bank of America. Then we can all see how important this really is."

"At the end of the day Steve and Brad need a new strategy. (Or a new PR firm.) This message is growing old, and makes them look unimaginative (or worse, sneaky) in leading a modern high technology company. Microsoft continues to stand alone in this space. It's really too bad."

Aqui está um texto que eu definitivamente gostaria de ter escrito!