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Re: [LUG] Next Microsoft CEO?

 

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, bad apple wrote:

On 04/09/13 16:04, Philip Hudson wrote:
On 4 Sep, 2013, at 3:08 pm, Matt Lee wrote:

it would be nice to know that we'd have
something like 95% worldwide free software adoption.

Do we not already? Proprietary is just a thin layer over FLOSS these
days.

That will be unexpected news to the engineers working on AIX, MVS,
z/OS/zVM, iOS (Cisco, not Apple), JuniperOS, OpenVMS... even the windows
guys will be surprised! We've come a long way since the windows TCP/IP
stack was lifted wholesale from BSD you know...

Open source is indeed everywhere these days but I think your argument
kind of understates the millions (billions? trillions?) lines of code
born in entirely proprietary shops all over the world.

it's like eleanor rigby.  i'm all choked up.

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