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User pain may mean Windows cracks

“The release of Vista, the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, could mark the point at which the ongoing argument between two very different models of how software should be developed and maintained is finally resolved.

With Vista Microsoft is taking much greater control over key aspects of the way users’ computers run – especially when it comes to security. This will highlight the differences between the closed development model advocated by Microsoft and the approach taken by free and open source software developers like the people behind GNU/Linux or the Firefox browser.”

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Interesting Story from the BBC. (Who are, incidentally, one of the largest M$ customers in the World. No wonder they need to raise the license fees..)

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