Check
this.
I will quote what we are concerned in from this Q/A interview:
Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to Microsoft?
A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
I still cant find a reason behind the offense on
Sony. Could you please justify that?
As Kassem said before
R&D isnt for free add to that technical support isnt
free too. Both are missing in the
Open Source market.
Also i think most of you hackers or programmers know that no matter how secure you develop your application/program/website it will always have some holes in it that hackers could use. Of course after PSNs outage, we saw what
SNEI changed to the entire infrastructure(firewalls, real-time monitoring, for levels of security and authentication) to improve security. This is obviously shows that from before they lacked all this needed security. We can blame the
Chief Information Officer for that, on a corporate level of course.
