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A Press Junket To Redmond

Posted by kdawson on from the belly-of-the-beast dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "Our very own Roblimo Miller was invited to an all-expenses-paid tour of the Microsoft campus because he is supposedly 'not friendly' to Microsoft. Writes Roblimo: 'I came away with a sense that Microsoft doesn't currently have a clear sense of what Microsoft should be and where Microsoft should be going... I also think, from what I heard during my visit and what other Microsoft employees and customers have told me at other times, that it has degenerated into a series of disconnected fiefdoms that aren't all moving in the same direction.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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  1. MOD PARENT UP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Even though it's a blast at FOSS/GNU/LINUX/???/PROFIT!

  2. M$ by wikinerd · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Embrace, extend, and extinguish, now applied to M$ critics. I don't trust Microsoft, and I think they are just trying to "buy out" their critics and shut them off.

  3. Meet degenerated MS, same as old MS by AHuxley · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In Capitalist West Microsoft provide junket to Redmond.
    In Soviet Union, Human Rights Watch get junket to you!

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  4. A clue for you Microsoft. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Take FreeBSD and release your software on it. No GPL to worry about, if your implementation is mindful of avoiding GPLed code. Look at how far Apple has come using BSD. And, as a firm, you've used BSD and FreeBSD in the past.

    If you make it so your software can run on a un-modified FreeBSD platform, all the better. With the BSD licence you can insert whatever nastly little hooks you want to without howls of protest and chest thumping like you get from the GNU crowd. Just like you've taken over some parts of IETF, you can mold and shape FreeBSD to your whims also.

    I look forward to the press releases and statements in Time magazine how Microsoft FreeBSD will be a better BSD than FreeBSD, just like how Windows NT would be a better UNIX than UNIX.