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Microsoft And JBoss Collaborate On Server Software
wellington map wrote to mention a C|Net article discussing a collaboration between Microsoft and JBoss, intended to ensure their server software is more interoperable. From the article: "Microsoft has struggled to deal with the arrival of open-source software, which is collaboratively developed with a code-sharing process that stands in stark contrast to the secrecy that shrouds most of the products from Microsoft and other proprietary software makers. After several attacks on the intellectual-property foundations and the methods, quality and cost of open-source software, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has begun a more cooperative phase."
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
But, hiding in a thick container of tin foil, I would add: Until we have the means in place to kill FOSS.
I think this has got nothing to do with FOSS but everything to do with IBM. Hitting on Websphere will be hitting on IBM's one of the server product. If you look at Microsoft website, it always compares .Net with Websphere. By collaborating with open source product MS will kill two birds in one stone. MS open source supporter and other kill websphere as much as possible by promoting an open source product.
Jboss stories on slashdot with no indication of what jboss is for (or why anyone would care). Didn't we go through this last year (and figure out that they were all slashvertizements?)?
You cooperate - they prosper. Survive the M$ legal death march? Time to the write M$ jungle code. You wouldn't survive it, but will survive longer depending on how you behave. Embrace, extend and extinguish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_e xtinguish
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I am trying hard to think of a company MS partnered with but didn't stab in the back. I can't think of one.
evil is as evil does