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Open source development prohibited with MASM ?!? (Announce)

posted by sol, 30.10.2007, 16:55

> But what is the actual advantage for prohibiting open source software with
> MASM? I mean, one way I can use MASM, and the other way I can't. Neither
> way hurts them. In fact, that's what programming tools are for: to create
> and share stuff. So, this boggles the mind. Oh well, less MASM users, more
> NASM/FASM users as a result. If ?? (whoever) doesn't see that as their
> loss, then too bad for them.
Open source does hurt Microsoft - in fact, it's Microsoft's largest threat. Microsoft can't fight against 'free' - there's no company behind it to threaten, sue, buy out or make big deals with. The software can simply be forked and continued.

While Microsoft's software gets filled with anti-consumer features like DRM and slows down, open source software tends to be getting better.

What do you think happens when someone switches to something like OpenOffice? Even if it's a dozen people a day --- they don't tend to switch back. They get over their fears and say "hrm, wow, this is actually pretty good...and it didn't cost me a thing."

If it wasn't worth using free over buying MS Office --- no loss, they didn't spend a thing. In a year when "omg brand new OpenOffice 3.0" comes out, they'll try it again and maybe permanently switch. Microsoft has no way of attracting these people back, unless they offer their products free, which doesn't work for them.

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