Microsoft Keeps Eye on Open-Source Prize

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Microsoft Keeps Eye on Open-Source Prize

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 20, 2006 @05:17AM from the never-ending-duel dept.

Rob writes to tell us that at the recent Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf, outlined why Microsoft is staying involved with open source. From the article: "Challenges of working [coopetively] in the open-source space include the balance between competing and cooperating with a rival, he said. Perception also is a 'big' challenge for the software giant. 'In many regards, the Microsoft open-source story lends itself to a great metaphor of David and Goliath,' he said. 'That is a challenge over perception.'"

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Error in title, please fix by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-20 05:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Should read "Microsoft Keeps Eye on Open-Source PR"
On target by Jordan+Catalano · 2006-02-20 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Microsoft views open source through the lens of "coopetition from commercial and open-source strategies at the same time," Hilf said.

Did he mean to say "through the lens of a high-powered rifle's croshairs"?
Freudian slip!!! by advocate_one · 2006-02-20 05:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Challenges of working [coopetively] in the open-source space include the balance between competing and cooperating with a rival,

never a truer word spoken... Microsoft loves to coopt software... hates giving back though... just absolutely loves the BSD license

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1. Re:Freudian slip!!! by JustNiz · 2006-02-20 05:31 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  >> .. just absolutely loves the BSD license
  
  Is that the EULA that comes with windows Blue Screen of Death?
2. Re:Freudian slip!!! by kurzweilfreak · 2006-02-20 06:44 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Somehow, "Resistance is futile. You will be co-opted." just doesn't sound right, although in some ways, it still fails to lose its sinister tone when you think of who might possibly utter these words.
  *looks up at the top of the page and gets a chill*
  
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I guess that... by Avillia · 2006-02-20 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

A large blue screen saying there was a critical error at 0x000000 is a 'A challenge over perception.' as well? /had to be done.
perceptions by gEvil+(beta) · 2006-02-20 05:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Perception also is a 'big' challenge for the software giant.

Indeed. Many people "perceive" their software to be bloated and buggy.

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C'mon. Seriously? by big_groo · 2006-02-20 05:31 · Score: 1, Funny

FTA:

Microsoft views open source through the lens of "coopetition from commercial and open-source strategies at the same time," Hilf said.

This sort of blatant disregard for the English language is simply intolerable.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=coopetiti on
1. Re:C'mon. Seriously? by orgelspieler · 2006-02-20 06:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  There are 250,000 hits for "April 31." That doesn't make it real. I agree with your sentiment; new words are created all the time. I don't believe, though, that thousands of Google hits constitutes evidence that a word or usage is commonly accepted among educated people. Frankly, I think "cooptition" is a stupid word, and I will not us it. Instead I will call the concept "competeration." Although it looks like somebody already came up with that (pdf, page 59 of 70). :-( (R)
  Also, there are 126,000 hits for "omgwtfbbq," but I'm not going to start using that either. ;-p
2. Re:C'mon. Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-20 08:43 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  42
  
  C'mon, somebody was going to say it.
Perception by truthsearch · 2006-02-20 05:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Perception of Microsoft: "There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft." - Bill Gates

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talk about flipping a metaphor! by Infoport · 2006-02-20 05:38 · Score: 5, Funny

I've heard that David and Goliath metaphor before... ...except that usually Micro$oft is the Goliath.

I can't belive that they DARE to try to use David vs Goliath as a metaphor in THEIR FAVOR!
Poor little beaten-down monopoly....
This guy is big! by Viraptor · 2006-02-20 05:45 · Score: 2, Funny

"Making money matters. More importantly, making money sustainably matters. Being a successful commercial software company is very hard ... staying successful is even harder," Hilf said. "Developing coopetition strategies is a great way for growth in this environment and we're seeing that today."

He must be a director / big fish. He tells something, everybody knows and still gets public.
Re:Is this a case of david defeating the goliath by EvilIdler · 2006-02-20 06:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Are you calling open source developers a bundle of sticks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot
Re:The only reason MS is interested by peterfa · 2006-02-20 07:41 · Score: 2, Funny

M$ actually doesn't know anything about it's own SMB protocol. That's probably why the information they gave up was confusing and why network drives don't really work well.
More FUD by gomadtroll · 2006-02-20 09:39 · Score: 2, Funny

Unless the license is GPL. MS is just blowing smoke,or is that inhaling ?