“There’s free software and then there’s open source”, he suggested, noting that the company gives away its software in developing countries. With open source software, on the other hand, “there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with”.
Open source, he said, creates a license “so that nobody can improve the software”.
He is Bill Gates, reported by Wired.
If open source software doesn’t improve, then I would like to understand why the beta of IE8 emulates the behaviour of Firefox, and not vice versa.
For the Italian law I am a freelance journalist, as I am a member of the Italian association and I have also subscribed for 2008.
For a small percentage of the community - in the area of marketing communications - I am a blogger, without ambitions but with a small group of followers.
For Microsoft I am neither one, or even worse - as this is really worse - I am a blogger only when I wite something that they do not like.
Otherwise, I am a “business”, as you can see from the badge I got today at the MIX event in Milan, which did not allow me neither to assist to Steve Ballmer’s press conference nor to attend the following cocktail lunch.
I was with a group of friends - journalists and bloggers - with whom I shared some Web 2.0 laughs… I suspect that Microsoft should reconsider its concept of “conversation”, otherwise monologues will - at the end - turn into a soliloquy.
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