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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Well put. People in the linux camp demand and command when they have no right to do so. Any article, whatsoever, that trys to suggest Microsoft is not a blood sucking juggernaut, draws a biblical plague from Linux worshippers. Instead of reading the article and trying to be receptive or at least cool to the contents they will immediately load and fire the anti-Bill Gates cannon at anyone, anywhere and with zero regard to what they are saying. Look at the news from the last week, Microsoft's landscape is going through a changing of the guards. The company is trying to embark on new and exciting times, trying to come up with a strategy for OSS, trying to change and all that this lot can say is some silly, uninformed expostulation about Bill being a borg. It's nonsense. But then I keep reading and see that these people fight amongst themselves like dogs clamoring for pee rights to a fire hydrant. The comments about SCO unix are enlightening, when one of their own breaks camp and tries to actually be a business they launch nuclear warheads at them. These people truly are software communists and don't realize the bleak end that they cast for themselves. In order for them to keep on with OSS someone has to pay the bill, don't they realize that! When someone is footing the bill, someone is guiding the project from the pocketbook. Just mark my words on the next statement. There will be a Wal-Mart and Target version of OSS operating systems. This will be a reality, it is the end result of software communism. A product that will be more abhorring than anything they claim from Microsoft. Just wait. They say OSS, but what they are really saying is that they want to take away my choice to actually choose to pay for software. They want to force feed me and call it enlightenment, they want to force me to type commands on a shell, they want to ridicule me for wanting to enjoy my user experience by moving widgets around on a screen that I can customize and personalize. I've been a computer user as long as everyone else, I started out in UNIX, JCL, and DOS, hated windows 3.0 when it came out, because I was not ready to accept it. These people evangelize over that fact but fail to see that the way of the world is another way. They make alot of claims about freedom and software but when you boil out the emotions they are just a band of people wanting to live in an unchanging ivory tower where they can do everything from the shell and expect no less from others. Why does this matter so to them, even more why does it matter so much that others be like them. They say Windows software doesn't work, yet I have used Windows software and find that it is just as culpable of failure as any software written for any O/S. I use open source software for my home machine and I use software I have paid for. For me that is the best combination. I contribute to open source and I am a reader of it as well. Don't censor me dammit!