July 30, 2004
CIC Teaching and Learning Mentors
Institute
Microsoft’s opinion?
lThe
“Halloween” Documents of 1998
l
l“…the intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in
OSS has benefits
that are not replicable with our current licensing model…”
l“..commercial quality can be achieved / exceeded by OSS projects.”
l“…OSS is long-term credible…”
l“…OSS advocates are making a progressively more credible argument that OSS software is at least as robust --
if not more -- than
commercial alternatives.”
l“The ability of the OSS process to collect and
harness the collective IQ
of thousands of individuals across the
Internet is simply amazing.”