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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. Re:Good to know by Locutus · · Score: 0, Troll

    except this "Bill" is out to find out where Microsoft can take advantage of Linux and open source to crush it.

    Microsoft does not leave a competitor with much, if any, life left in them after they are done with them. The GPL and other licenses might help keep open source around for years to come, but a full blown patent attack could shut down many of the key projects. Even if they are unfounded, the cost of fighting back could cost billions.

    personally, I would not let this Bill or the other Bill in my front door.

    LoB

    --
    "Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
  2. Re:Good to know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    "I'm a dev on Longhorn, and believe it or not, at least for our project, we have a lab running linux and OSX machines... to make sure our new stuff communicates with succesfully with their stuff..."
    Ah, "communicates" as in "extends competitor protocols in proprietary and subtly incompatible ways," or "communicates" as in "our Bonjour integration is coming along swimmingly"?

    But thanks for the post. Perhaps someone with a reporter friend can get a headline like "Longhorn Developers Choose Linux for Servers."

    Unless, of course, your post is bullshit from one end to the other.