[50879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microslosh vision of the future
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blitz)
Mon Aug 12 21:26:40 2002
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:25:52 -0400
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a05111b35b97dcefe16f5@[146.106.12.76]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Well, I contend open source is much better positioned to make these
changes, and in less time than M$ to the offending file format....I've seen
changes made available in hours as opposed to weeks in the M$ case. If M$
decides to do this, they risk pi$$ing off a whole cadre of corporate
customers who are slow to upgrade anyway.
At 22:47 8/12/02 +0200, you wrote:
>At 9:41 AM -0400 2002/08/12, William Warren wrote:
>
>> StarOffice to the rescue.
>
> Only until they change the file format again. Microsoft can
> afford to change the file format on an even daily basis, and come out
> with patches for the previous patches, and call them all "security
> patches" so that everyone is either forced to apply them or dump
> Microsoft altogether.
>
> Open source projects can't possibly afford to keep up, if
> Microsoft decides to go down this road.
