[ILUG] The I.S.A in the Irish Times

[Justin Mason]

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Daniel Goldsmith writes:
> Hello All,
> 
> Little quick quote from today's Microsoft Special in the Irish Times:
> 
> p5, "Software puts a hard edge to our economy" (Puff piece for Cathal
> Friel of the Irish Software Association)
> 
> "He also noted that Open Source software - which is developed by large
> communities of programmers and distributed for free or at low cost -
> is also going to have an effect on the software market"
> [...]
> "He believes the open source movement is actually stifling innovation,
> because fewer programmers will develop software without the financial
> incentive of success"

This is Cathal Friel of Merrion Corporate Finance, it seems: [1]

Either MS have been briefing him exclusively, because that's a 100% MS PR
line; or MS PR wrote the piece on behalf of the ISA.   I'd suspect
the latter, given the source.

  [1]: http://www.software.ie/Sectors/ISA/ISADoclib3.nsf/vLookupHTML/About_Us_Executive_Council?OpenDocument

Has anyone got the text?  I'm not a subscriber (nor am I sure if the
supplement would be online anyway.)

- --j.
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