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re: More on Google and Open Source

Nektar — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:07:00 GMT

MSN Spaces: speaking of which isn't it strange that a modern blog service does not support rss? How come MSN Spaces do not have RSS feeds whilst every other major blog service does? How come MSN Spaces are called revolutionary?

re: More on Google and Open Source

Nektar — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:15:00 GMT

Microsoft's contributions to open source: talking of which they could certainly have been much better. Microsoft can contribute many more libraries to the open source community. What about the MFC and ULT library which will no longer be developed? What about the Common Language Runtime? You wish it to be open source and yet the license is restrictive. If you wish to allow others to build on .NET then why such a restrictive license? It seems that you are only doing half measures. In any case, the Common Language Runtime is developed in open source form by Mono. Why allow the existence of two separate code bases?

re: More on Google and Open Source

Eric Pederson — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 07:51:00 GMT

I've wondered quite a bit as to whether and what Google might lend back in terms of open source. I suspect, for instance, they might have taken some existing open source tools (programming languages, perhaps?) and tweaked them to perform at higher levels for certain requirements.

I have not come across any such contributions... and I am led to the possibility that Google contributes steathily. This might be necessary to avoid giving away secrets about how they operate to would be competitors.

So maybe they have goiven back, maybe they have not.

But isn't it an interesting business/technology dilema: If you use open source for all its worth at the core of your strategic undertakings, and enhance it, how do you share it back without providing your competitors with intelligence on your operations and initiatives?

cheers

Eric Pederson

re: More on Google and Open Source

Dare Obasanjo — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:37:00 GMT

Nektar,
I'm not sure where you heard that MSN Spaces does not support RSS. Anyway that isn't true. Every MSN Space has an RSS feed. Here's a link to the one for my space; http://spaces.msn.com/members/carnage4life/feed.rss

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