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On Thursday 23 September 2004 20:53, Neil Williams wrote:
This is why there is Open Source code in Microsoft Windows that has been modified but the source code is not available - nor is there any need for Microsoft to do so.
But by doing that, MS cut themselves off from any easy use of _improvements_ by anyone else who is publishing and contributing back work to the main fork. Which to be sure is less sub-optimal engineering than various of their behaviours, but still increases their costs for no added benefit. In doing so, therefore, unless they can show a clear $ benefit to their strategy as distinct from the alternative of improving, and publishing improvements for reincorporation to teh main line, the officers of that corporation demonstrably fail in their duties to their shareholders - which are substantially the only peculiar duties they have that have any teeth. -- Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.