Mark Geschke from Cape Town-based Space Age Technologies has written a naive pro-Microsoft article on ITWeb about why his company isn't going to diversify and support Linux. ITWeb continues its battle with me and is having technical difficulties with my reply, so I thought I'd copy it here. Would be interested to know how others would write the reply better.
It has been suggested that Microsoft can use the Windows source code leakage and the ensuing exploits as an argument for security by obscurity by keeping source closed, and thus against the security of source availability inherent to Open Source. But that's just silly...
Owning the platform
25 Sep
No surprise here - Microsoft is aiming to take out Google. Surprise? The nonchalant manner Microsoft talks about abusing their monopoly to do things that are only possible for them to do due to their monopoly. ``"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the platform," he added, a clear sign that Microsoft thinks it can only beat Google if it owns the technology.
Robert X. Cringely's column discusses Microsoft getting caught out yet again. One day...