Microsoft Pushes “Shared Source” with Straight Face

Posted on May 17, 2001 by Dan Gillmor

  • Feed Magazine: Give it Away Now! This is the ultimate flaw in Mundie’s argument. If creative destruction is a hallmark of the new new economy, if we’re fated to live through increasingly turbulent economic times, then open source software isn’t one of the causes behind that volatility. It’s an antidote.
  • The Register: Microsoft co-opts Caldera, Torvalds in Shared Source offensive. So Mundie is tacitly evoking the spirit of the kooky high priestess of the cult, and the WC libs’ pin-up Ayn Rand, whose writings trumpet the “virtue of selfishness”. If software libre proves anything, it might be that this is a fairly limited way of looking at the world, although that hasn’t stopped people trying to square the circle.

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