Cringely on Microsoft vs Linux

Robert Cringely looks at how Microsoft has consistently failed to understand the meaning and the power of open source software:

“Linux scares Microsoft on several levels. There's this business of giving the software away for free, which is totally confusing to Bill Gates -- confusing and scary, since it undermines the entire basis of his fortune. But it's the breadth of Linux and its potential on other platforms that also scares Microsoft. At a time when Microsoft is trying to be sure its software runs on all the handhelds, set-top boxes, mobile phones and any other new machine types that just might replace in our hearts the PC, versions of Linux compete on all those platforms, too.”

Will it be too late by the time realization strikes? Or is it too late already?

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