...then you win" (Mohandas Gandhi).

Steve Ballmer got smart on OpenSource. What does it tell us? Did we won? Or do we better get scared now?

Open source is not a new technology area. It was a new business model. Open source never goes away as a business model or competitor. We have learned how to compete with open source, and we will compete with it for the rest of time

and even more. Not only did he got the idea of OpenSource, he also understood this software thing:

iPod is a software thing. You just happen to collect the money on the hardware.

challenging times indeed,
have a lut of fun
cheers