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Microsoft Wants Sit-Down With OSS Advocates

bonch writes "Microsoft is reaching out to the OSS community and wanting a sit-down to discuss how to better to interoperate with them. At a conference sponsored by the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) in Cambridge, Md., Microsoft's Brad Smith extended an olive branch to its competitors, including the OSS community. 'We're going to have to figure out how to build some bridges between the various parts of our industry,' he said. Eric Raymond responds, saying the first steps Microsoft could do are to open their file formats and support open standards."

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  1. ms_BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If they would only focus on producing a stable operating system, it would certainly be in the right direction!