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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. 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?
  2. 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!

  3. 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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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.