Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS

AlexGr sends us to a long piece in Redmond Magazine on Microsoft's changing relationship to open source. The article centers around a profile of Bill Hilf, Microsoft's internal and external evangelist for OSS. It's an even-handed piece that fully reflects the continuing deep skepticism in the community of Microsoft's motives and actions.

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Re:M$ Accomplishments? Another nice thing ruined.

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I love you guys, and all this new M$ tone that spews forth here.

Has it occurred to you just for a second that people actually naming you around here might be a sign that you're doing something wrong? Or are you still chalking that up to Microsoft's expensive and concerted effort to stalk you personally on Slashdot?

more inflammatory than informative

I'm sorry twitter, but what exactly do you find "inflammatory" here? I'll tell you: You don't. There's nothing there to be taken as a personal insult (which is how you seem to take it), but it works wonders with the mods, doesn't it? Every single one of your posts is an exercise in weird cuasi-intellectual prose with lots of weasel words thrown in that for some reason always reward you with your beloved mod points. More often than not you never actually say anything, but your posts look good and have some "M$ WIndoze" goodness, so everything is honky dory.

let it be a lesson for those who consider working

Between this and your sockpuppet account you've posted more than seven thousand times. Have you ever considered doing something actually useful for free software instead? All that time, trying to influence (I guess?) the group of people most likely to agree with you in the first place. If that's not a perfect example of your beloved "intentional waste" punchline, I don't know what is.