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Meet Microsoft's Linux Lab Head Bill Hilf

Posted by timothy on from the eye-on-the-competition dept.

morcego writes "Yahoo News has a very interesting interview with Bill Hilf, Microsoft's director of Microsoft's platform technology strategy group, who in turn works for Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy and Linux point man. From the interview: '"I am a non-Microsoft guy working at Microsoft," Hilf said.'"

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  1. Useless article! by dbretton · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just RTFA, and there is no content at all.

    Let me summarize for you:
    Bill Hilf works for Microsoft, reporting on the progress and direction of the open source projects and the OSS community in general.

    There, now you can go do something more important than read this article.

  2. Re:So let me get the right... by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer - alternatively, KNOW YOUR ENEMY. Or, how about "do unto others, but first cover your butt."

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  3. Re:Good to know by dougmc · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's nice to know that at least somebody there has some understanding of open source/Linux/alternatives.
    Microsoft is a large company. I'll bet there's hundreds of employees there that have a good understanding of open source alternatives. There's probably even some employees who regularly contribute to some open source projects, unless Microsoft policy actively prohibits it.

    The marketing stuff that you see from them is written by a small subset of the company, and it's generally written with one goal in mind -- to benefit Microsoft. They aren't worried about giving the alternatives a fair treatment, unless they think that that will benefit them somehow.

    Overall, Microsoft may be the `enemy', but the individual employees certainly aren't. They're just average working people like those working at any other software company.