Gartner Says Open Source "Impossible To Avoid" 167
alphadogg writes in with a Network World article that covers a Gartner open source conference, in which VP Mark Driver seems to be going out of his way to be provocative. "You can try to avoid open source, but it's probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether. By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code..." After this lead-in, in which open source seems to be regarded as some kind of communicable disease, the rest of the article outlines a perfectly rational plan for developing an open source strategy.
Sounds right (Score:4, Funny)
Well that's an understatment... (Score:2, Funny)
Disease? (Score:4, Funny)
Sir, you appear to be confusing "open source" with "open sores." I realize they sound similar, and English spelling isn't entirely logical, but this one ends with an "S" sound, not a "Z."
Is Gartner warning us? (Score:2, Funny)
A conversation (Score:5, Funny)
--I was in the hospital with (whispers) *Linux*. They wouldn't let me get online. They were afraid I'd install it on the computer. They even found it on my cellphone.
--Man, that's harsh!
--You're telling me! At least they put me in a room with Windows.
Re:Sounds right (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Already here. (Score:3, Funny)
Otherwise, they might as well be dead and useless.
Oh, wait.
Re:Sounds right (Score:2, Funny)
I think Hell is freezing. Wrap the pipes. (Score:2, Funny)
Considering this recent revelation of the future from this prophet, we here at Microsoft want a piece of the action too. We have been dodging this bullet for too long. It's time to sink our teeth in and bite it.
We have been holding secret negotiations with Torvalds and starting next year, the NT kernel will be scrapped in favor of the Linux kernel. Windows will cease to be an operating system. Instead, Microsoft will develop something to be known as "the Windows Desktop Environment", or WDE for short. WDE will have all the user-friendly features you have come to love in Microsoft Windows operating systems with the exception that everything about it will be open source.
Help us make WDE and our new distribution become a success and continue your support for Microsoft.
Your Friend in Redmond,
William Gates III
Re:Sounds right (Score:3, Funny)
Oh but you can... (Score:5, Funny)
Somehow I don't think so. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A conversation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh but you can... (Score:1, Funny)