Daniel Robbins hired by M$

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:42:02AM -0400, Alex Beamish wrote:
> This has been said on SlashDot already, but, for better or for worse,
> Microsoft has a habit of hiring bright people. Perhaps this hire will
> be one more drop in the bucket that will tilt Microsoft towards open
> source.
> 
> However, keep in mind that one of Bill Gates' early experience with
> open source was a bad one -- a paper tape copy of his and Paul Allen's
> BASIC for the Altair was nicked, way back when.

But that was only a problem because Bill didn't WANT to share it.  He
wanted to make money selling software.  He doesn't seem to believe as
much in making money writing and improving software as a service as he
does in selling software.

> In addition, Microsoft may still have to learn how it's possible to
> make money from open source software. While they maintain a monopoly
> on the desktop, they may not feel the urge to change their business
> model.

So far they seem to think the nly way is to sell the same software every
few years with a few improvements added.

Lennart Sorensen
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