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Microsoft Flirts with Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-be-coy dept.

Vin Daryl writes "ZDNet reports on Microsoft's love-hate relationship with open-source software." From the article: "The interoperability lab focuses on getting products from open-source ISVs such as JBoss, to work on the Microsoft platform, he said. 'For example, we often collaborate with JBoss, but in certain areas we might compete with them. It's competition and cooperation,' Hilf explained. 'Over time, as you see the open-source marketplace maturing and becoming more commercial, I think you'll see more of that kind of dynamics. It's not something that's unique to Microsoft,' he said, adding that IBM and Oracle also compete, and at the same time, cooperate with open-source vendors. "

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  1. Flirting with open source by HangingChad · · Score: 5, Funny

    And open source slaps Microsoft and throws a drink in its face and tells it in no uncertain terms to keep its grubby mits to itself.

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    1. Re:Flirting with open source by Agent00Wang · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on, Open Source was asking for it... going around flashing its goods to anyone who cares to look.

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    2. Re:Flirting with open source by theskipper · · Score: 5, Funny

      And in the morning open source wakes up screaming upon seeing its bedmate's horns and oddly reddish glow.

    3. Re:Flirting with open source by Wudbaer · · Score: 3, Funny

      FreeBSD ?

    4. Re:Flirting with open source by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny

      More like FreeBDSM.

    5. Re:Flirting with open source by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Funny

      going around flashing its goods to anyone who cares to look.

      Ah, yeah, nothing more sexy than allowing everybody to see its bones, veins and internal organs. Pyramid Head would have a nosebleed.

  2. Careful Open Source! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make sure that Microsoft does slip any rohypnol in your drink while she's flirting with you!

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    1. Re:Careful Open Source! by databyss · · Score: 2, Funny

      So Microsoft is the woman and OpenSource is the man?

      But the link... oh snap!

      Microsoft and OpenSource are LESBIANS!

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  3. I just read a story on the Onion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently, Microsoft has purchased all Open Source, and will be selling it for $199 in stores this fall.

  4. so that's what flirting means... by iogan · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... no wonder I have zero success with the ladies, I've misunderstood the whole thing. Go figure.

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  5. MS reaction to open source by spun · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Oh my god, open source is so hot. It's so fucking hot, it's like a curry. I gotta tell it how hot it is. But if I tell it how hot it is it'll think I'm being a monopolist. It's so hot, it's making me a monopolist... bitch!"

    To paraphrase from "She's so Hot...Boom!" by The Flight of the Conchords, New Zealand's 4th most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo

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  6. looking by present_arms · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're just looking for another TCP/IP stack ;)

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  7. Did you just... by skarphace · · Score: 3, Funny
    about the sentence "Microsoft Flirts with Open Source" is that it's like the 5 year old's love:

    In the kindergarden little boys try to get the attention of little girls by being rude and abusive towards the little girl.

    Now a bit seriously, I'm not saying that MS is like a 5 year old - although you could find a lot of examples like that, but the flirting part doesn't hold up either.
    Did you just make an argument and then kill it all in one post? Nice job.
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    1. Re:Did you just... by Reverend528 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Did you just make an argument and then kill it all in one post?

      I think he did. But in all seriousness, he really didn't.

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  8. Obligatory reference by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the kindergarden little boys try to get the attention of little girls by being rude and abusive towards the little girl.

    Yeah, but when they get mad they start throwing chairs around. Beware.

  9. Agenda by chiller2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Port successful OSS applications to Windows.
    2. Exclaim loudly that there's no need to look beyond Windows as it supports both worlds of apps.
    3. Using deep pockets and large marketing / propaganda dept, repeat step 2 as much as possible.
    4. Profit!

    If there are any problems along the way, throw chairs.

    Microsoft wouldn't do the above unless they were going to profit from it or damage the competition. Anyone who thinks differently is very naive.

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  10. You got it all wrong.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    More like part of their usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" cycle

    This is flirting, not software development. It is 'embrace', 'extend', 'up the arse - no lube' cycle.