Gates: 'There's nothing monolithic about chaos'

In an interview Monday night with CNET News.com, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates responded to a question about potential open-source partnerships by commenting on the relative chaos and variety of players and products in that community.

"There's nothing monolithic about chaos. There is more variety of everything," he said. "There are some of those players that are looking at commercial-type revenues. We'll certainly spend time with those people to see what we have in common and what we can do for customers together. I wouldn't say that there is some big new development." Click here for the full interview.

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... and there's nothing choatic about choice.

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Funny

Given that the open source community can respond to bug fixes faster, and has less bugs, calling it chaos is just ignorant name calling.

If anything the messes that MS releases is indicitive of chaos.

Fewer bugs???

This is an uneducated comment. Some simply like to bash organizations just because they're making money. By the way, response time in bug fixes, hacks, and virus defs are much slower with open source code. Consider the feedback ratio regarding these bugs and hacks between open source and secret source, then tell me open source is more responsive.