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Re: Linux article published in Walla



Gadi Shimshon wrote:
> 
> > "halloween" documents. How did this person came to conclusion that
> > Microsoft should adopt/recommend the Linux OS? Just few weeks ago
> 
> Oooops.... i meant the "open source" system. that's what microzoft is
> after. Thanks for the remarks, anyhow

	Anyway, for M$ to adopt the free software principles, it would have to
reinvent itself as no other company ever managed to do -- even much
smaller ones than M$.

	First, it would have to clean its code of any proprietary licensed
code, such as authentication and compression things;

	Second, undocumented features would have to be removed (if
ill-intentioned) or fully documented;

	Third, M$ would loose all its shrink-wrapped license revenues, relying
only on services and customization revenues;

	Fourth, its code would have to improve *a lot*.

	Fifth: without proprietary protocols and APIs lock-in, things like UDP,
Win32, SMB, OLE and DCOM would have to stand on their own.  Now if I
believe better programmers than myself, this is impossible because they
are all fundamentally flawed protocols, APIs, architectures *and*
implementations.

	Anyone has more ideas on this matter?


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