[Gllug] Some guy's opensource white paper.

[will]

tet at accucard.com wrote:
>>http://www.adti.net/html_files/defense/opensource_whitepaper.pdf
>>
>>In case you are interested.  I am only a page and a half in but it is
>>not sounding to complimentry...
> 
> 
> That might be a direct consequence of the fact that it was funded
> by Microsoft. It's also full of grammatical and factual errors. For
> example, he claims the proprietary software industry creates 320
> million jobs a year in the USA. For a country of 260 million people,
> that's quite impressive. Even allowing for short term contracts
> accounting for some individuals having multiple jobs a year, that
> number is *waaay* too high.

It did sound like microsoft FUD with padding.  There were lots of Favourite MS phrases in there like 
"Viral Software".

Will.


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