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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. Is this, like, Sleepless in Seattle by ettlz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    less one annoying person?

    1. Re:Is this, like, Sleepless in Seattle by 'nother+poster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What do you have against Meg Ryan?

    2. Re:Is this, like, Sleepless in Seattle by ettlz · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      What do you have against Meg Ryan?
      Nothing, and that's precisely the trouble.
  2. Windows has a Linux or other Unix Kernel by 2015 by stlhawkeye · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    As I usually do when this kind of news comes out, I re-assert my prediction.

    Ignorant ridicule to follow.

    --
    "I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib