Launchpad to be free

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/28/2009 08:22 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> I don't buy that for a second.  Microsoft thrives on being just
> incompatible enough with every standard that you can't easily run
> someone else's software in its place.  Going open source would also mea=
n
> exposing all their file formats, as well as the code they put in to
> intentionally break compatibility.
>  =20
This is typical of industry leaders. Look at IBM in 60s and 70s.

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