Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Truth Behind Ballmer And "Linux Is A Cancer"" video.

  1. 5:05 Actually, any material created for payment from the 🇺🇸 Federal Government, that would ordinarily be under copyright, is legally in the public domain. It would be nice if other Governments did the same. And also nice if it could apply to patentable things as well.
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  2. 7:11 Remember that the Free Software Foundation explicitly recognizes many non-copyleft licences as Free licences. So even in Stallman’s terms, “Free Software” does not have to imply “GPL” or “copyleft”.
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  3. But the only way Microsoft could be “innovative” to compete against Linux was to ... copy Linux. Wholesale.
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  4. SaaS is not only still here, but Microsoft is phasing out on-prem versions of Office and Windows Server and going all-in on the cloud versions.
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  5.  @joshallen128  Back then it was the best. Nowadays I think the Linux networking stack is the most advanced. But Microsoft is still stuck with its derivative of the old BSD one.
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  6. Remember, GPL isn’t about preventing commercial use, it’s about combating vendor lock-in. A competitive free market is crucially dependent on having a level playing field.
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  7. The BSDs seem so fragmented. They can’t even agree on a common kernel. There are about 50 times as many Linux distros as BSD variants, and yet the Linux distros are so much more seamlessly interoperable by comparison.
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  8. Remember, GPL isn’t about preventing commercial use, it’s about combating vendor lock-in. A competitive free market is crucially dependent on having a level playing field.
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  9. 1:16 You could have scrolled that screen down just a bit, to give more content and less ambush ad.
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  10. He did so well with Windows Phone, Windows RT and the Kin, didn’t he.
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  11.  @BrodieRobertson  So what did he win?
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  12.  @BrodieRobertson  Did he introduce that?
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  13. Windows is an albatross around the neck of Microsoft. Even they are having trouble keeping it viable.
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  14.  @BrodieRobertson  That was the time of Windows Vista, as I recall.
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  15.  @BrodieRobertson  XP actually (mostly) happened under Gates. Vista was entirely Ballmer’s fault. Do we count that as a success or a failure?
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  16.  @BrodieRobertson  XP’s death was postponed to head off the threat from the Linux netbooks.
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  17.  @BrodieRobertson  One of Ballmer’s many messes.
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  18.  @mudi2000a  Unfortunately, Vista’s networking performance was not the best. There was a long blog post from a Microsoft engineer about the effort they tried to put into minimizing the impact of file copying on network performance. They just couldn’t do both.
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