Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source

tlockney writes "Next week at Microsoft's MIX, whurley will be leading a discussion on 'Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft'. To kick off a bit of pre-session discussion and enlist the help of others in putting Microsoft on the spot, whurley, king of all things open source at BMC has written an article entitled 'Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source'."

Comments

Re:What's a whurly?

[casings]

You should have assumed that, given that the submitter's name is 'tlockney' which stands for Thomas Lockney.

Afterall isn't first initial followed by last name a standard?

But who's whurley you ask?

Well here's a quick bio about why he is important:

William Hurley is the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. Also known as "whurley", he is responsible for creating BMC's open source agenda and overseeing the company's participation in various free and open source software communities to advance the adoption and integration of BSM solutions. A technology visionary and holder of 11 important patents, whurley brings 16 years of experience in developing groundbreaking technology. He is the Chairman of the Open Management Consortium, a non-profit organization advancing the adoption, development, and integration of open source systems management. Named an IBM Master Inventor, whurley has received numerous awards including an IBM Pervasive Computing Award and Apple Computer Design Award.

Anyway given this impressive resume and of course the fact that he works for a software company definitely gives him the ability to pull figures from his ass and present them as fact.

Troll on, whurley.

Re:Linux not the threat; the GNU GPL is

[jabskeeterbug]

The GPL is their enemy because the GPL proactively defends our freedom. Is the BSD license a Free Software license? You bet! But it doesn't proactively defend our freedom like the GPL does, and it is that characteristic of the GPL that frightens Microsoft to its core. That's also why they're fighting so desperately against the OpenDocument file formats; to Microsoft, actual, true Freedom for users is a very, very scary thing. Microsoft is a technology provider. Why would they want to give out their source code as GPL and *force* their end users to open their program as well? The GPL is great for some things, but if you are giving your code to paying customers, let them do what they want with it. This "defend our freedom" sounds like a bunch of bullshit. Viewing sourcode isn't a freedom.

Geek Wannabes

[Sloppy]

Ok please, naming your convention after Knuth's fictitious assembly language? How dorky can you get? Whaddya bet there's just a bunch of C# programmers there, who don't even know how their computer works?