Open Doors to Closed Source
Hoping to counter the recent
announcement that Linux-provider Red Hat, and North Carolina State
University, are partnering to create the first open source-based
university, the software giant Microsoft today revealed they are forming a
separate business entity named Red Mond for the purpose of establishing
closed-source universities.
"Our stockhold-- I mean, our customers demand the propagation of our
reliable and secure operating systems and applications," said company
spokesman Hugh Sless-Flak. "Through Red Mond, students will be prepared
for a future of exciting monopolistic inflexibility."
Training as Reliable as Amtrak
Red Mond will train the closed-source university students on how to deal
with the many mutually-exclusive flavors, interfaces, and idiosyncrasies
of such systems as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows CE,
Windows 2000, and Windows Me; platforms including Microsoft .NOT and
Microsoft WipeTV; established programming languages such as Virus Basic
for Applications; and their newest programming language, C: (which lets
you program Windows' underlying component, DOS).
Closed Source Momentum
Microsoft research shows that Windows is still the most popular choice
for an operating system, based on computers shipped with Windows
pre-loaded. They predict that by 2005, 100 percent of computer-owners
will be charged for Windows licenses whether or not they have Windows on
their computer.
An outpouring of closed source support has come from all companies
Microsoft has bought, plus Compaq.
