Sunday, September 8, 2013
DISCLAIMER: ALL THE OPINIONS ARE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AUTHOR AND ARE BASED ON THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
This entry
is related to documentary video entitled “Revolution OS”. The documentary
exposes how the Open Source and the Free Software were created, under which
terms is distributed and how this projects were (and are) taking Microsoft
users. Now, what I'll try to do (yes, try) is to analyze some of the points of
the documentary video instead of just making a recap.
First of
all, let's talk about the Microsoft behavior. Even when Microsoft is a huge
company, they are afraid of the competition... Yes, they are AFRAID. We
have the Netscape case (I think almost everyone knows about this one) or the
OpenGL case. Let's check the OpenGL case: This time, when Microsoft Windows
Vista was released, DirectX had a positive feedback and the programmers wanted
to use it. Even when OpenGL was way better, Microsoft launched a FUD (fear,
uncertainty and doubt) campaign against OpenGL, making a wild exaggeration of
the merits of DirectX and the disadvantages of OpenGL. This way, programmers
used DirectX over OpenGL, even when OpenGL is multiplatform and DirectX is only
supported by Windows and XBOX. The key for Microsoft is to spread the fear
instead of taking advantage of the competition... Yes, TAKING ADVANTAGE. How
can you take advantage of a competition? Well, from my perspective, the competition
will help all the companies involved, because if you compete to be the very
best, like no one ever was (yup, that was Pokémon), then all the companies will
have to improve their software, so the companies will have better software. In
the OpenGL case, if Microsoft had accepted the competition, OpenGL and DirectX
could have been better by now...
I think this is enough for now, let me know if you what's your opinion about this. Also, the documentary is available in YouTube if you are interested.
See ya!
