Microsoft Deploys Linux, Open Software in Test Lab

securitas writes "Microsoft has deployed Linux and other open-source software in test labs used by business customers to experiment with Microsoft's products. The products include Linux, Apache, MySQL and Open LDAP directory-access software on Intel-based computers, according to Martin Taylor, who is in charge of Microsoft's Linux competitive strategy. He said the goal was to learn 'what can you do and how can you do it' using open-source software in a competitive analysis. This step comes after Microsoft's recent admission that Linux is Microsoft's biggest threat after economic conditions. Mirrors at CMPnetAsia and InternetWeek." It'd be cool to see some patches come from Redmond, but that's probably wishful thinking.

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[DunbarTheInept]

Linux "zealots" didn't start this fight. Microsoft did. They are the ones that want to see Linux destroyed. It is only natural that Linux advocates would start to realize that Microsoft must fall for their system to live, because Microsoft has elimination of linux as their goal. I'd absolutely love to live in a world where you use whatever the fuck you want on your own platform, and it doesn't matter. *Microsoft* won't let me live in that world. When *THEY* stop trying to destroy interoperability, then I'll stop hating them. And yes, they have plenty of dedicated, smart, good people in the ranks - but they aren't the ones making the decisions that matter here.