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Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy

Posted by Zonk on from the a-little-innovation-here-a-little-bad-press-there dept.

MacDaffy writes "Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, Michael Taylor, continues Microsoft's press blitz against Open Source in general and Linux in particular in a CNET Interview. He says of Linux: 'You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'"

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  1. *confused* by HAKdragon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'"

    Is he talking about Linux or SP2?

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  2. That sure clears things up for me! by Weaselmancer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.

    Well thank God that Windows doesn't do that.

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    Weaselmancer
    rediculous.
  3. Nothing to see here, move along by jleq · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft complains about Linux by making up random sentences with little or no technical background.

    In other news, in an amazing turn of events, the earth continues to revolve around the sun.