Interoperability (Gates and logic)
After reading about Bill Gates latest swipe at open source it drives me nuts. This is a clever guy, so why does he come up with such stupid statements.
It was to do with an email he apparently sent out to all his corporate customers telling them that MS is working to make software more interoperable and that customers not confuse open source with interoperable software.
Correct if I’m wrong but, have you ever tried to save some MS offices files to older versions or even simply into a format that some other software could understand with out the use of some extra MS software that you need to download from them? Also Windows 98 (very bad I know but some people still use it) and XP don’t like each other at all, and finally my own bugbear, If you can find a W3C compliant Microsoft web page please let me know, in fact if you can find any page that IE renders the same as a web compliant browser that would be nice too, and the list goes on.
Open source software is surely by definition going to be interoperable because of it’s very definition. You can view the source code should you want to and add to the process of development in order to make it interact with whatever you like.
