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April 24, 2008 11:18 PM PDT
I'm at the Moscow airport getting ready to fly back to the United States. Before I leave, however, I figured it would be good to note (and then bury) three myths that I heard perpetuated by Microsoft at the Interop Moscow conference. They've been largely discredited elsewhere, but it appears Microsoft prefers to keep regurgitating the party line until abject ridicule sets in.
- Myth: Open source can't innovate. Coming from Microsoft, I found this galling in the extreme, especially since the Microsoft representative was using Sharepoint as an example of Microsoft's innovation, which is a clumsy ripoff of...ECM systems that my own company's founder created 15 years ago at Documentum. I mean, sure, it has Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and other groundbreaking products (I'm being facetious). It also came up with the XBox, SQL Server, and other innovative stuff. (Still smiling.)
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