Ballmer: Microsoftin tuotteita ei open sourceksi
Microsoftin toimitusjohtaja Steve Ballmer esiintyi tällä viikolla Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008:ssa. Puheen jälkeisessä kysymystuokiossa Ballmerilta kysyttiin mm. Microsoftin suhteesta open sourceen.
Number one, are our products likely to be open sourced? No. [...]Will we interoperate with products that come from like Linux, from the open source world? Yes, we will. [...]
Will we encourage people who want to do open source development to do it on top of Windows? Yes. [...]
And, you know, we see interesting things where bits and pieces of technology, commercial companies are now starting to provide it in an open source form or to digest in an open source form. And we’re open to that as well. But our fundamental business model will remain kind of commercial software, advertising, enterprise licensing, et cetera.