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Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability
AlexGr sends us to Todd Bishop's blog in the Seattle PI for news that Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its Director of Linux Interoperability and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab. "...his name will be familiar to people in the open-source community. In an e-mail late Thursday night, a Microsoft representative said the role will be filled by Tom Hanrahan, who was most recently the director of engineering at the Linux Foundation, the group created through the recent combination of the Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs."
Is it too soon to start spitting on his children in the streets... or should we just set his SUV on fire?
If the bush administration is reading this and is humor impaired, this was a joke and was not a terrorist threat on the life of Mr Hanrahan, his children or the employees or stockholders of Microsoft and its subsidiaries. God bless America and may it never burn ito a smoldering pile of ash on the date of August 13th at 3:22PM EST.
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To the point: this is great news. The integration betwen Windows and Linuzzz (yes, the one that has been expected by years) is finally happening. The 2 sides are and will get better in this affair. MS must get better implementing the standards if they really want to get things working with OS community. I even expect them to get back a couple of interesting things to the community. Of course those who don't want to be "contaminated" by Redmond, will scream and cry, wanting to mantain their Little elitist system minoritary.... The problem here is that the times where Linuzzz was pure are over. LOTS of chash is being injected by Google, Sun, IBM, MS, so purity (whatever it is) is now over.
Integration and interoperability is a good thing and it is time to leave back all childchish discussions from both parts and learn to live together. MS is making steps towards this. Now the most conservative part of the other side is the REAL resistance.
Not a troll or flaimbait, but mod me so... I don't care. I can fake my stupid karma back. I've done so a houndred of times. Getting karma is easy. losing it by expressing a valid opinion is a honor,
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
I wholeheartedly agree with setting all SUVs on fire.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear