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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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