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Microsoft Wants Sit-Down With OSS Advocates

Posted by Zonk on from the pigs-fly-hell-freezes-duke-nukem-releases dept.

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. Montreal? by Montreal!!hahahahaha · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hahahahahaha

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  2. Mod Points by Iscariot_ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    God I wish I hadn't just gotten rid of the last of my mod points...

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  3. 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!

  4. Re:Microsoft's knee-jerk response. by delirium+of+disorder · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know this is OT...hope I have the kerma to burn.

    I am intrested in HP 712 systems. I have a 712/60 and would like to play with some other similar systems. They are inexpensive, small, low power, and quiet and seam to run Linux and HPUX both well (and I would like to try out the openbsd and NeXTStep ports).

    Contact me at the_one@ameritech.net or AIM: Da1the0ne

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