[AccessD] OT: open source

Holy smoke batman.  What a read!

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:49 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problemsolving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: open source


On 6 Apr 2004 at 10:58, Susan Harkins wrote:

> Someone has asked me "What's in the future for Microsoft and the Open
Source
> movement? "
>
> It's such a huge topic I couldn't really answer -- it's going to take me a
> few days to formulate a response. It is a tad off topic for a strictly
> Access list -- and I don't want any MS bashing, just because that would be
> even more off topic -- but anyone want to make a comment on the subject?
I'd
> love to hear them -- my initial response to the guy was "Resistance is
> futile" but that's only really funny if you're saying it from the MS
> perspective. ;)
>

I think that Peruvian Congressmen Edgar Villanueva Nuñez summed up
the arguments fairly well:

http://www.opensource.org/docs/peru_and_ms.php
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