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Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:31AM 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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Re:Accomplishments? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-13 08:20 · 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!
That's easy. by twitter · 2007-03-13 08:50 · Score: 4, Funny

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

Sell out.

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