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If Microsoft Went Open Source

Posted by Zonk on from the cold-day-in-hell dept.

From an Anonymous Reader: "The BBC's Bill Thompson has written a speculative article about the possibility of Microsoft attempting to secure their place in the future of operating systems by creating an open operating system. From the article: 'They allocate a billion dollars worth of programmers to shine and polish [The new OS] for a year, improving its compatibility with Windows Server technologies, donating parts of the Windows and Office code bases under the GPL and turning it into the world's best operating system.' Could this ever happen?

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  1. Re:Wrong emphasis by Rahga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I actually don't like Inkscape. Full disclosure, I'm familiar with vector graphics.

    I've never, ever been a fan of the wretched SVG files that Sodipodi and Inkcape produces, and as I professionally use Illustrator CS, I just can't get the sort of smooth workflow going in Inkscape. It's been a few months, but modifying nodes was just about unbearable last time I tried.

    Adobe Illustrator is just about flawless with SVG output... but only after you screen out the massive ammount of metadata junk it forces on output.