[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu: the Microsoft of open source?
John Nouveaux
john at nouveaux-solutions.com
Sun Jan 13 18:21:04 PST 2008
Edward,
I'd like to see the post. What do they mean the "Microsoft" of Open Source?
Just Big?
Guilty of anti-trust violations?
Guilty of misleading and shady business practices?
My thought...
Absent concrete accusations, nothing to see here, moving on.
john
At 6:14 PM -0800 1/13/08, mendozae at sonoma.edu wrote:
>I read someone post an accusation that Ubuntu has become the Microsoft of
>the open source community because of its popularity and widespread use.
>
>I felt that this was unfair because, among other good reasons, people in
>the open source community will always have a choice. At least for now,
>people have chosen Ubuntu because it has earned it through quality and NOT
>through monopoly and manipulation like Microcrap.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Edward
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