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Microsoft Proposes Cooperative Research With OSDL

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the olive-branch-or-a-fox-in-the-henhouse dept.

turnitover writes "According to eWEEK.com, Microsoft has proposed to work with OSDL for a 'facts-based analysis of Linux and Windows.' Could this just be a case of the fox contracting security for the hen house?" Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, declined to comment on the specifics of what was discussed when he met with OSDL's CEO Stuart Cohen, only to say that they met.

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  1. NO NO NO by xgamer04 · · Score: -1, Troll

    DO NOT LET MS do anything that could screw up Linux.

    That is all.

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    When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
    1. Re:NO NO NO by jofi · · Score: -1, Troll

      damn, so Linux won't be dying anytime soon? that's bad news

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      Blame the user, not the software.
  2. Re:The ODSL? by Temsi · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, it's the Openly Defined Sex Limitation.

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    -- This sig for rent.
  3. Re:Kernel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hahahah! And just why would MS resort to using the lowest-common-denominator that is the Linux kernel?

    Get a clue, and welcome to the real world.

  4. Why is the OSDL and Redhat not up for studies? by sriram_2001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I find it weird that the open source community cries foul when they see Microsoft funded studies on www.microsoft.com/getthefacts but yet, people balk when Microsoft comes and says "Hey..you dont trust us? Fine - go do your own studies."

  5. Re:Kernel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Like those of the two-bit Linux cock-sucking operation you so blindly follow, your incoherent rantings also lack even the most basic principles of common sense.

  6. Re:Don't be so sure by aCapitalist · · Score: -1, Troll

    This has nothing to do with religion.

    Oh, ok then it's a "social movement" according to the GPL FAQ. I'm talking about the Stallman groupie nutcases in any case.

    Funny how any techie could rattle off at least a few well known and high profile cases of MS shafting it's "development partners". And yet you sit here and rattle off some crap about religious zealots and "not being so sure".

    Linus got shafted by that idiot that reverse-engineered the bitkeeper protocol and works with him. What was your point again? Oh, that's right....the usual slashdweeb mantra of "Microsoft is evil"

    Obviously you're too much an idiot to bother trying to explain anything to , or too much an asshole to bother with.

    Translation: I'm a member of the Stallman cult

    So here's a bone:
    Name 1 competing software manufacturer that MS has dealt with on a cooperative basis that MS hasn't stolen from, lied to, killed out right or simply aquired.

    More slashdweeb idiocy of "Microsoft is evil"