Gates Embraces Web Service Interoperability

djh101010 writes "In a CNN article which looks more like something out of The Onion, Bill Gates expresses his interest in participating in interoperability with rival technologies, through common standards. Specifically mentioned are IBM's WebSphere, and Linux. 'We're being as inclusive as we can,' Gates said of Microsoft's role in the cross-platform project. 'This is a fabric for someone to do e-commerce that's independent of the operating systems that are out there.'

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FUD ALERT FUD ALERT!!!

[TyrranzzX]

Looks like a pile of hourseshit to me and you can bet Microsoft is going to try some dirty stuff in the next couple of years, but I think Bill is beginning to get a grasp of what he's up against.

Linux is Microsoft's achillies heel, the one and only thing that can really take Microsoft out; the peasants revolting and building their own community. It's everything microsoft isn't, it's free, it's open sourced, it's standards based and it's a community project. Microsoft is expensive, closed source, proprietary and is a corperate project. Microsoft's stuff is inherently insecure while linux's stuff is inherently secure.

What I do hope happens is Gates decides to throw longhorn in the trash for being the piece of shit it is and start developing on the OSS standard and makes a opersting system from scratch based on the linux kernel for the idiots at home. I'd love the idea of Microsoft working hand in hand with the OSS community, but as most of us feel, nobody trusts Bill Gates farter than they can throw him (and by the look of the picture he's gotten pudgy).

What most of us fear is Bill Gates deciding to try to steal the communities hard made and hard worked on code. Sure, if he wants to develope it and sell it under the terms of the GPL that's fine by me, and I like that idea but when your company is pulling stunts like with SCO people are going to be resiliant and understandably mistrusting if not vengful.

So, we'll see. Lets just hope for all of our sakes that he doesn't suceed in stealing the linux code and screwing all of the hackers who made it. I don't even want to think what would happen if hackers around the world decided vigalantism is a great way to go. We're all 3 meals from anarchy, and if they shut down the internet itself there's sure going to be anarchy. Think Ms Blaster multiplied by a thousand. If any of these hackers are reading this, if your'e going to do something vigalanty style, I'd suggest going ahead and destroying redmond from the inside out while setting all their information free on kazaa and when you're done with that, gut the goverment for all the data it's worth and set their info free as well.

Re:OK I'll bite...

[Lodragandraoidh]

Microsoft 'extending' Java - making existing code non-interoperable between Sun and Microsoft's versions.

Embrace and extend (and by 'extend' they mean extend in ways that will strengthen Microsoft proprietary lock-in) is something we have seen Microsoft do over and over again with various standards.

Are you people blind? As much as Microsoft trys to brush these things under the rug, THEY EXIST! They have left a slimey trail of misconduct going back for years.

How in the world can you consider standing next to Microsoft? How can you consider anything they say as truthful and honest? I can't, in good faith, applaud Gate's words; his actions speak louder.

Re:Here is a sample of Word 2003 XML

[AstroDrabb]

Big deal. MS is just going to wrap proprietary crap in a standards compliant XML wrapper. MS is not going to give out their office document formats. Putting it in XML is just a PR stunt. I can't believe you would even try to defend them. Everything that is NOT plain text will be in a proprietary format wrapped in XML. This won't make working with an MS office doc any easier or more open, unless of course you buy their office product.