Is the era of Microsoft ending?
When an athlete or star becomes a legend, of course, it’s a two-edged sword. They don’t fear you, they know you’re going down, and so do you.
So it is, now, with Microsoft. All the respect shown Big Green at Linuxworld can’t mask the fact that its era is ending, that in time the open source model will triumph.
In time we’ll look back on the Linux-Microsoft war and wonder what all the fuss was about.
Also by Dana:
I was trying to reconcile Sun’s current rah-rah support for open source with Linus’ posts which continue to show his distrust of the company, leading to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’ famous dinner invitation.
The answer is simple. Linus is a programmer. He’s not a politician, not a businessman. Linus has a history with Sun, under Scott McNealy, which has given Linus a Microsoft-like distrust of the company.
It’s personal. Schwartz would like it to be business, but like so many programmers, Linus Torvalds has a memory. Fool him once shame on you, fool him twice…won’t get fooled again.
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