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Meet Martin Taylor Of Microsoft's Open Source Test Lab
securitas writes "Martin Taylor was recently appointed as Microsoft's open source and Linux strategist and is responsible for Microsoft's open source and Linux test lab, mentioned on Slashdot last week. Taylor says his goal is to change Microsoft's competitive strategy by pursuing a fact-based approach instead of continuing the previous discredit-and-undermine strategy that was characterized by calling open source and Linux software 'a cancer, un-American and bankrupt' among other things. Taylor says he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'"
"You can't ever take it and use it in a job creating activity."
;P
But Bill!!!!!
If not for FreeBSD (could be Linux if I wanted it to be) I'd be unemployed right now! I won't put Windows in my data center unless my boss twists my arm (which he has done once because a customer DEMANDED IIS).
BTW, FreeBSD and MacOS X rock. I use Linux from time to time, but something about BSD just sits more correctly with me for some reason...feh, bring on the holy war.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
>Taylor says his goal is to change Microsoft's competitive strategy by pursuing a fact-based approach
hmmm....they'll probably get their 'facts' from the same source as the Bush administration...
-mojo
Have anyone every tried contacting MS via abuse@microsoft.com etc? You always get a guy called "Ronaldo", and he always replies with stuff COMPLETELY irrelevant. I'm sure he's a bot. :P
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
With apt-rpm, red-hat's update system looks like this:
/usr/bin/apt-get update /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -y
0 0 * * *
0 0 * * *
I get an email from Cron once a day telling me what packages were updated. I never have to do a thing.