I almost feel sorry for Microsoft having this guy in charge. At least Bill Gates had some tech savvy and sense of reality. Steve Ballmer seems to truly see things in terms of money. As in, “we have the most money and therefore we are the best.”
Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft, probably because he knows […]

I don’t plan on being abusive towards Microsoft about its decision to open up the source of some .NET Framework libraries, for viewing purposes only(!), but I would instead like to clarify a statement I made in my last post about open source. To quote myself:

Is the source open? If it’s not, it’s not open […]

Clint Patterson from Microsoft:

The open-source development model has yet to demonstrate the ability to support profitable software businesses that can drive the coordinated research and testing necessary to sustain innovation. Many in the open-source software community have shifted to hybrid business models. They are making the same business decisions as any commercial software company in […]