Microsoft Flirts with Open Source

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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Re:Microsoft submitted patches?

[towsonu2003]

Has anyone got any references to support this claim? Were their patches accepted? What did the patches do?

Linspire accepted one of those patches: "let users be root".

On the other hand, Microsoft certainly isn't offering any patches to Ubuntu bugs...

That site.

[Unski]

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