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Commentary: Decoding Microsoft's open source argument
Last week, Microsoft Senior Vice-President Craig Mundie submitted a column to ZDNN decribing why the "commercial software model alone" can sustain the industry's growth. Now, Michael Tiemann, the CTO at Red Hat, a supplier of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure, gives his point-by-point counter-argument.
Last week, Microsoft Senior Vice-President Craig Mundie submitted a column to ZDNN decribing why the "commercial software model alone" can sustain the industry's growth. Now, Michael Tiemann, the CTO at Red Hat, a supplier of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure, gives his point-by-point counter-argument. Read the column. -- Michael Tiemann, Special to ZDNet