[Discussioni] [NEWS] Open source kills jobs, says Gates

[Andrea Glorioso]

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http://www.asiacomputerweekly.com/acw_ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&Artid=24328&Catid=2&subcat=19

  In muted    tones,  Microsoft’s chairman  warned   governments  and
  companies that open source software is not the way to go if they are
  in the business of creating jobs and intellectual property.
  
  Bill Gates was on the Malaysian leg of a whirlwind Asian tour, which
  included a speech on  his vision  of  "seamless computing", when  he
  voiced  his concerns over the growing  goodwill towards open source,
  especially in Asia.
  
  It is  one  of the top  two challenges  facing  Microsoft today, the
  other  being software piracy,  which  is making governments lose tax
  revenue, Gates outlined on Jun 29 at  a roundtable for key Southeast
  Asian press.
  
  His  packed Malaysian itinerary included a  speech to  over 3,000 IT
  professionals  on seamless  computing,   and an  MOU-signing  for  a
  Partners in Learning initiative for Malaysia.
  
  At the  roundtable,    Gates,   also Microsoft’s    chief  software
  architect, emphasised how damaging open source software can be.
  
  "If you don't  want to  create  jobs or  intellectual property, then
  there is a tendency to develop open source. It  is not something you
  do as a day  job. If you  want to give it   away, you work on  it at
  night," he said.
  
  "[Open source]  doesn't  guarantee upward compatibility   or do that
  kind of integration [for seamless computing to work].
  
  "We certainly will have open-source apps  that compete with and that
  run on  Windows. But when it comes  to a guarantee or having someone
  who  stands behind your  software,  [open  source] is typically  not
  something done in a capital approach."

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