Re: Microsoft’s Linux Strategy

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:25:49 +1200, Roderick Aldridge wrote:

> Yes. I just hope that Open Source gets a fair share of the
> (financial) cake in the process.

That may or may not happen, and it may or may not matter. Open Source
is already having a massively deflationary effect on the entire
software industry. Instead of having to develop entire systems from
scratch, being able to download a bunch of free toolkits to use as a
starting point has I think made a big improvement to both productivity
and costs, across a whole range of industries.

Or, to put it another way, nobody in the Open Source world is going to
be as wealthy as Bill Gates.
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