Robert Padgett
500+ Head-Fier
This snooty Brit - who spent the majority of working life in open systems and standards - would argue that it has more to do with building a revenue stream and walled garden than anything to do with nationality. After all most of us open guys were created to deal with the problem of Big Blue
Agreed. And such genius-thinking is the reason why Bloomberg surpassed Reuters by 2012 in the vital market-data terminals on the desks of financial traders.
And, I might add that their "Penny-wise, Pound-foolish" and otherwise-quite proper British Empire gone-by attitudes devalued the company to the point that Canadian Thomson was able to buy the name and reputation in a fire sale, back in 2008.
Let us not forget Canonical (Ubuntu) is British, one of the most popular distros of Linux.
No offense, mate... and revenue stream for closed systems in an open-source world will follow the same path into extinction