Microsoft's Mundie to Continue OSS Outreach

Techie writes "In an interview with eWeek Craig Mundie, Microsoft's new co-head-honcho and chief research and strategy officer, says he plans to continue to push the Redmond software titan forward with its goal of greater interoperability with software licensed under the GPL." From the article: "Even in Bill's own public remarks, he pointed out that he thought his iconic status and the way that was reported tended to overemphasize his role in the company's innovation and execution. This is really a transition that has been in the works for a couple of years, with a couple to go before, and we will see the emergence of a lot of great talent that has today been portrayed as all Bill. This is a company with, in many cases, the best people in the world. "

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Don't worry!

[Hikaru79]

From the summary:
[Bill Gates] thought his iconic status and the way that was reported tended to overemphasize his role in the company's innovation and execution.

Haha. Did someone here think that Bill Gates was intimately involved in all of Microsoft's wonderful innovations? Anyone?

Re:Don't trust Mundie

[Umbral Blot]

Well you are entitled to your opinion, but your unfalsifiable belief in it is what most people would call fanaticism. For example Islamic fanatics will believe that their extreme reading of the Koran is correct no matter what evidence you present them with. Not that I expect you to blow anybody up, but being so closed to the possibility that you may be in error actually makes the positions you defend look bad.

Re:At the risk of sounding like Fark

[RLiegh]

The only thing that (linking to) userfriendly says is that you have crap taste in webcomics. :-P

infoworld industry lapdogs, not journalists

[EllynGeek]

You must be hiding the good articles, because you're not publishing them. This interview is nothing more than a puff piece. When you start publishing articles that don't look like warmed-over press releases, and asking intelligent interview questions, then we'll believe you. When Microsoft spokespeople utter blatantly stupid blather like "we want to reach out to the OSS community more!" why aren't you asking the obvious questions, like "What's stopping you from being a good OSS participant already? Open up some of your document formats, quit playing games with networking protocols and XML, quit your dirty tricks with ODF, and quit spreading misinformation and lies about FOSS. You know you don't need an invitation- just join in, honor FOSS licenses, and quit trying to own and control everything."

If your interviewees refuse to answer the hard questions, why don't you make that part of your article?

You're just industry lapdogs, not journalists.

Re:Evil Microsoft agrees with many others though..

[TheNetAvenger]

So you are publically admitting your team has illegally reverse engineered CIFS technology?

Thanks for the post...