“Microsoft has sucked billions of dollars out of the IT industry that could have been spent in more fruitful ways, according to Novell. Speaking on Monday at BrainShare Europe, Novell’s annual conference here, CEO Jack Messman told customers and partners that Microsoft’s exhaustive license fees for Windows have prevented end-user organizations and independent software developers from directing cash into more ‘innovative’ software,” Andrew Donoghue writes for CNET News. “‘I am of the opinion that innovation has been slowed because of Microsoft. It has sucked $60 billion out of our industry that could have been used for innovation,’ he said. A Microsoft representative was not immediately available for comment.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Jack Messman wins the 2004 Duh! award for stating the most obvious truth in a public forum.
is he a stupidman or just really dum. hi i am 8 years old
Kudos to the gentleman for speaking the truth about Microshaft, a company that Novell will continue to do business with. Ol’ Billy Gates will probably put him on the shit list and Novell will start feeling the wrath.
Hey, I’m glad to see industry leaders start speaking out publicly more and more about the atrocities that M$ has perpetrated.
Bizarro Jeff
Microsoft+Bush really sucks money out of you!
Please buy windows+word for bush!
MOoo!
Longhorn BBQ at my place!
Beautiful
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When is the next Stevenote?
hey it may be obvious, but unless someone speaks it, is it really true???(yea in this case yes but some people need to be hit upside the head.)
Whatever, Mary.
And this is a revelation to whom?
Novell owns SUSE Linux. How else do we expect them to speak about Microsoft? As much as I agree with the guy, I can’t forget he has an anti-Microsoft agenda that “colors” his rhetoric.
What he says is true, too bad his believability index is so low. It gives MS users an excuse not to take him seriously. He heeds to get backup from an independent source.
MS didn’t suck out 60 billion. It was freely offered up to MS by ignorant IT sheep. MS does suck however.
Jack Messman also wins the 2004 Big Balls award to dissing MS in public.. not common from someone actually in power..
Steve Jobs for EU President!
I hope he didn’t just figure this out. I also hope he hasn’t been sitting on the revelation for years.
BTW- “the Doobie Brothers broke up”
-Romancing The Stone
Michael Douglas
Only 60 Billion?
Spank Bill for me!
Steve is an AmericanArab so he would do fine by running Apple, Pixar, Disney and USA. (quattro ceo?)
European Union is the only Super Power with China.
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Steve knows how to keep Pax Apple with the only Super Powers in the world
Amazing how the Bush sucks like windows 🙁
Bush has sucked like… what 300 billion out of middle class pockets… Nice really nice…
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Chinese will own USA within 5 years
One advice to Americans…
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If you need oil… do not attack in the middle east… attack Canada… they have more oil than Arabs all together
Then again if all of the Americans would move to Canada it would be a disaster.. Average IQ would go down 90% 🙁
Finland,
No one is listening.
It’s one thing for Microsoft to suck $60 Billion out of the IT Industry. It’s another for IT to get sucked in and support it.
… attack Canada…
No need. Set up business. Ottawa will roll over. I garontee, mm, hm.
attack canada ??…. why??
Already, most of the world hates the US… thanx to the current administration….
At least the Canadians are smart enough to realize that not every American supports the National Guard drop out in the White House !
If $60B has needlessly gone to M$, why don’t people get off their butts and do something about it? What other OSes are feasible for end-users? OS 9; OS X. Novell should put some real resources, and real funding, behind linux to give people a viable option.
Look at all the open source projects that are threatening M$ right now: various linux stripes; OpenOffice; WINE; etc. if this big rich guy is serious he should get some of his CEO buddies and put together a foundation dedicated to supporting (I mean supporting financially) open source initiatives. This way we can hope that these tools become usable in our lifetime. As things stand they’re just hobbies, and it’s pathetic that M$ is vulnerable at all. If companies hope to someday reap the rewards of cheap-to-free OSes etc., they should be willing to invest capital toward making it happen.
The pathetic political howling is already bad enough in these forums.. I don’t think I’ll be able to stand it when Bush gets re-elected in a landslide.. I guess I’ll have to find somewhere else to get my Mac/MS news kicks, because all this mindless politcal debate sucks asps (deadly snakes).
If you have a political opinion unrelated to the main topic, try writing your own blog.
Thanks
Forget Canada, the US should attack itself. Do us all a favour
hellstudios,
Give them time dude, Yanks are so stupid they’ll do it sooner or later.
One guy from Finland,
As a fellow “guy from Finland”, and as a “silent reader” of MacDailyNews I’ve felt the urge to tell you to shut up on several occasions in the past.
This time I’m gonna go forward and do it. (Sorry, everyone)
The fact that you relentlessly try to convince people of other nations, mainly american people, that they somehow are less intelligent than you (and add the fact that you somehow always compare Finland with USA) is so plain stupid that you just… should know better.
Yes, there are stupid people in the states. But hey, here’s a shocker, there are stupid people in Finland too, my neighbour actually is one of the most stupid people I’ve ever known!
This should go without saying, but with you I’m not that sure: There are stupid people all around the globe!
And why do you feel the urge to constantly diss Bush on a mac-specific site? The last time I looked at the opinion polls, it’s about 50-50, so get over it, he has his supporters, and he has those who do not support him.
If you want to discuss politics, do it on a site intended for that purpose.
The reason I wrote this is mainly the fact that I’m really getting pissed off at One guy from Finland for making me, and fellow finns look really bad.
…cause we ain’t all THAT bad, really.
One guy from Finland, It’s great that you share the same kind of passion for the mac as the rest of us here do, but please, just please, leave out the politics, and the stupid (political) advising you always manage to try to do, but never quite succeed in.
-mcfinn