[Tfug] How the world does change ...

[erich]

I'm afraid the link has grown stale, but the story is intriguing. I've heard
from other sources that MS isn't the monopoly it once was  & Steve
Ballmer is struggling.

                                                                      Erich
Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:

>Seen online this evening:
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>Open Sources | InfoWorld | Open source setting the terms with Microsoft (Marten 
>Mickos) | June 6, 2007 07:50 AM | By Matt Asay
>  June 06, 2007
>  Open source setting the terms with Microsoft (Marten Mickos)
>    Filed under: Open Source
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>    This is perhaps the first I've ever heard someone credibly say that 
>    Microsoft must now live by open source's rules, or suffer. As Marten 
>    Mickos (CEO, MySQL) told The Register,
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>        If you won't work with MySQL, PHP and Ruby then you are lost.
>
>    Wow. Say those same words (and maybe add in "Linux," "Apache," and others) 
>    five years ago and Microsoft could have legitimately laughed.
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>Rest of story here:
>http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/06/open_source_set_1.htm
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>Who'da thunk it?
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>Angus
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