Opinion: Is open source the new normal?
ENT News | at | by Mike
As the Desktop Linux Summit gets underway in San Diego - on the heels of last month's enterprise-oriented LinuxWorld - it appears that Microsoft is swimming the wrong way against the tide of history. Not that history hasn't been kind to Redmond. Just two decades ago, Microsoft led the rebel alliance that turned computing on its head by introducing the notion of a commodity-priced operating system running on separate commodity-priced hardware. Now, Microsoft is the Empire to be toppled. The operating system is becoming a layer of code that exists, for all intents and purposes, in the public domain. And Microsoft's responses to this shift - and threat to its core business - have been tepid and misguided.