OSDL Skeptical Of Joint Study with Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on Sunday August 28, 2005 @10:14PM from the may-you-live-in-interesting-times dept.

Jac writes "An interview with ZDNet reveals the low opinion Stuart Cohen, chief of Open Source Development Labs(OSDL), has of a recent Microsoft proposal to conduct a joint study on on deploying Microsoft Vs Linux. From the article: 'As far as working with Microsoft on a study, Microsoft could probably find one negative line on Linux in a 100-page research report that it would spend $10 million marketing while ignoring the other 99 pages...' An interesting follow-up to a recent Slashdot article.

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Objective study might still be better by Mostly+a+lurker · 2005-08-28 22:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

I share the skepicism over Microsoft's motives. That said, in the absence of a highly visible objective study, all we can expect is more of the purchased studies that IMHO are an even easier vehicle for misleading marketing.
At least with an objective study, those who take the trouble to read the whole report get some useful information.