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Anti-Microsoft sentiment
Author: Dave Winer Posted: 9/15/2000; 12:07:54 PM Topic: Debunking the OSS Bazaar? Msg #: 21356 (In response to 21355) Prev/Next: 21355 / 21357
David, now that I feel that I've tackled the What is Open Source question, I'm looking for the next challenge.When you say: "I think anti-Microsoft sentiment is one of the few sentiments that nearly the entire computing industry agrees on" I'd like to double-click on this phrase: "anti-Microsoft sentiment". I'm not in interested in knowing why people have anti-Microsoft sentiment, I just wonder if it could be expressed in words, what is it that they would want Microsoft to do differently?
I myself have mixed feelings about Microsoft. Based on publicly available info, and tea-leave reading, most of the time they went against other products I think the Microsoft products were better in some meaningful way to users. I competed against Microsoft a couple of times, and always felt they were a lot more fair to me than my other larger competitors were. I wonder sometimes if the people who are "anti-Microsoft" understand how cut-throat the software business really is.
I just wonder what the substance behind anti-Microsoft sentiment is.
There are responses to this message:
- Re: Anti-Microsoft sentiment, Wesley Felter, 9/15/2000; 1:59:28 PM
- Re: Anti-Microsoft sentiment, David McCusker, 9/15/2000; 2:00:40 PM
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