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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.
It's M$ for heaven's sake. Very much the Satan of the software world.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
I'm sure this calls for a goatse pic somehow.
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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?
No.
Or are you still chalking that up to Microsoft's expensive and concerted effort to stalk you personally on Slashdot?
Yes, M$ is doing it's best to disrupt and abuse Slashdot. The harassment dished out to me personally is part of that. They think they can make things unpleasant and disinformative here as they have elsewhere. They consider that, "competition" and that's about the best they have to offer. How pathetic. They are a blight with nothing better to offer.
That's not the first time you have tried to read my mind.
"Kumbaya", "dirty", dismissing the idea that M$ might not really be sincere without further investigation. All these things are insults, the same M$ is known for when talking about those, "dirty commie hippies, misguided at best, impractical day dreamers, destructive at worst ... a cancer, unAmerican, zealots" and so on and so forth, just like you deadzo. Well look, more of the same:
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.
I'll define what constitutes a waste of my time, thank you. I've got time because my computers work effortlessly, so I get to spend my time using them for fun things like sparring with you trolls.
This audience has a fair number of Windoze users and that should change. Though they may agree with me about freedom in principle, they are still wasting their time with M$ workarounds. Those kinds of people think they know what they are talking about, but they don't. They have fallen for the FUD and don't really know how much easier their lives could be. Everyone here needs to finally make the switch and stick to it for a couple of months. Very few will ever go back.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I think I'm all grown up now and I can figure out when I need to be "liberated". I love that you have lots of free time because your computers "work", and I'm trapped with "M$ Windoze workarounds" yet I have all this free time to "harrass" you.
You and others are paid to do what you do. You need to quit because it's a waste of your time at any price.
"FUD" when it's about the only thing you have left as your desperation over your failure to do anything meaningful becomes more and more evident.
I'm going to go home and play with my little girls now. Have a nice night.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Maybe one day you'll understand that you'd be far more efficient if you didn't come across as such an asshole.
Only people hoplessly in love with M$ think like that.
Slashdot mod points are not real, you know. They don't validate your existence.
Mod points are not real, but he conversation is. Even you, a paid harassment drone, are dreaming my dream by reading what I write. M$ spends about a billion dollars a month harassing others and promoting themselves, but it all falls apart here where people spend a little of their spare time, memory and critical thinking.
How many times have you posted your anual "XXXX is the year of Linux" deal? What, seven years and counting?
No, I have not been saying that as long as M$ has been working on Vista. This year is the first I've thought of as a tipping point.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Only people hoplessly in love with M$ think I'm an asshole, generally because they don't believe in being nice to anyone.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.