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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."

2 of 553 comments (clear)

  1. It's Longhorn, Stupid! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think everyone is missing it. Longhorn had finally broken down to the point where Bill Gates is getting desperate for a real fix. He's looking for a new kernal for Longhorn, that's why he's turning to OSS. If it works for Apple, it should work for Microsoft.

    The only drawback is that there's nothing to preventing the new kernal from segfaulting when it see all the legacy Windows code it has to run. There's only so much you can do with OSS.

  2. Re:three words by vettemph · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was hoping your three words for bill were:

    1) Go
    2) Fuck
    3) Yourself. :)

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