[CS-FSLUG] What would happen if MS went FOSS

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:06:16AM +0100, 'Mash wrote:
> On 6/14/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> > "Microsoft officials themselves also have been dropping hints about doing more
> > open-source projects. In fact, Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft's
> > Shared Source program, has been using his Weblog recently to start trying to
> > catalog the myriad Microsoft shared- and open-sourced projects that are below
> > the radar."
> > 
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823267,00.asp
>  
> 
> Morning, 
> 
> I was just wondering after reading this article what would happen if
> MS decided that
> following Windows Longhorn that the next realease of Windows would be
> Opensource?
> That MS was moving towards releasing all there new software as FOSS.
> 
> Would the company suddenly collapse, would the stock market be affected ?
> 
> Just a thought, how would it impact the IT world ?

I imagine that Windows would suddenly get drastically better if MS went
to an open-source model, because there wouldn't be hideous pressure on
coders and testers to meet the release dates set by the marketers.

Aaron Lehmann