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Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS

Posted by kdawson on from the competition-and-coexistence dept.

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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  1. I vent my crack in your general direction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Smells like Linux"

    1. Re:I vent my crack in your general direction by adam.dorsey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Son, seems like you've got a crack problem there. You should get some caulk and stick it up in that crack, seal it up nice and tight. You seem like you know your way around caulk, so I'll leave you to whatever kind you prefer.

      (note: for the joke to be properly enjoyed, mispronounce 'caulk')

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  2. What's the famous quote? by wellingj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ohh yea.....

    "You made one mistake, you trusted us."

    This is just Microsoft's fud piggy bank. They put some pennies in now and they will take some more latter.

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    Money is the root of all evil?
  3. Re:Accomplishments? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What have YOU done for OSS? You OSS zealots (particularly twitter) are doing more harm than good.

    What have I done? Well, I can tell you that I have released countless poorly coded, undocumented, utterly crappy programs to sourceforge. So THERE!

    And did I mention the god awful GUI interfaces. Geez. Show some respect!

  4. That's easy. by twitter · · Score: 4, Funny

    How does one become the Open Source Software evangelist at a practically 100% proprietary company?

    Sell out.

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  5. A whole lot. by eeek77 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What have YOU done for OSS? You OSS zealots (particularly twitter) are doing more harm than good." I'll have you know that I have PERSONALLY downloaded over five, ahem, FIVE different Linux distributions and tested them on my old laptop at home. SO THERE. Ha.

  6. Re:Oh? by rbanffy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sure you have. Everything bashing MS is even handed. ;-)

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  7. Just so you know by mgiuca · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am the most anti-Microsoft person around, going back to getting burned when they abandoned OS/2.

    However, I think this is great news. I wouldn't object to Microsoft becoming the #1 software producer for Linux - by making Office etc. work in Mono and licensing their C# Win32 libraries for a reasonable price. I would probably start using Outlook right away because our corporate overlords insist on Exchange.
    Dude, just so you know, you're not the most anti-Microsoft person around.