ZDNet weighs in with Will Microsoft promise split the open-source movement.
When we last left “As the .Net Turns,” Richard Stallman was promising that Microsoft would never, ever marry his open source daughter.
Now Microsoft has raised the tension in the room by giving that daughter a ring, to the cheers of the rest of her family.
We join our show already in progress.
Cute.
The truth of the matter is that – to the extent that it could ever have been accused of unification before – mono+Novell+Microsoft have already split the “movement”.
The more accurate question is how much of the damage will the Community Promise undo? A brief stroll through the intellectual void that is ZDNet comments depressingly shows it seems to be having little effect.
