FUD about Bill Gates spreading FUD

Slashdot today has somebody writing about the FUD that Bill Gates is apparently spreading about OS being non-interoperable (whatever that means). And then it links to Bill Gate's Executive e-mail on "Building software that is interoperable by design". Well, well - the subject line of Bill's mail doesn't seem to have to anything to do with OSS...so I decide to go look for myself. As far as I can make out the mail say's the following Businesses face the challenges of making the various IT pieces work together. Over the years, the industry has tried various things and the best solution seems to be to have these systems talk to each other. One of the modes of talking is XML OS is a mode of licensing, not a mechanism for making software work together Microsoft is taking steps to make sure that its systems are interoperable Well, he could be blamed for talking vaporware - but I can't find him spreading FUD about OSS anywhere. Looks like the OSS guys (much as I love them) keep feeling the need for a scapegoat to beat and they are the ones spreading FUD about supposed FUD...

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