What is Bill Gates Learning From Open Source?
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| In the world of Free Open Source Software communities, Microsoft is often
| viewed as the very epitome of the Cathedral-style model of software
| production. But is Bill Gates learning from the software development
| phenomenon that he once compared loosely to communism? In commenting on the
| results of a Microsoft-commissioned survey of approximately 500 board-level
| executives about the importance of interpersonal skills versus raw IT coding
| skills, Gates starts to sound a bit more like a member of the Apache
| Foundation than the take-no-prisoners king of cut-throat
| competition: 'Software innovation, like almost every other kind of
| innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other
| people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and
| understand their needs.'.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/15/1252218&from=rss
Related:
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| ...Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols
| anyone can implement is communism...
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| ...Mr. Gates' secret is out now--he too was a "communist;" he, too,
| recognized that software patents were harmful-until Microsoft
| became one of these giants...
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http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?part=rss&tag=5575731&subj=news.1071.20
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
A Patent Lie
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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
http://www.gridter.com/articles/software_cycle.html
U.S. official blasts Indian patent system
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| A U.S. official leading a business delegation here called India's
| patent and copyright laws antiquated and unable to offer
| protections necessary for foreign companies to operate
| here... Addressing a business seminar in New Delhi, Lavin said
| India needs to modernize its patent and copyright laws to
| attract more foreign capital. Lavin is leading a business
| delegation that includes 225 U.S. corporate executives from
| about 100 companies such as IBM, AT&T and Motorola.
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http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601164&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS
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