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Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability

Posted by kdawson on from the over-to-the-dark-side dept.

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."

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  1. no... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Judas ! Go to the creationist museum where you belong.

  2. Finally by HalAtWork · · Score: 4, Funny

    NOW things will finally start getting better between MS and Linux!

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    1. Re:Finally by hahiss · · Score: 3, Funny

      Great---*now* I will be able to get MS Office and Windows Media Player! And we can replace the standard *nix shells with cmd.exe.

      I hope they will release .deb files for 'em. . . .

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    2. Re:Finally by ciroknight · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news, we got our hands on an early version of this press release:
      HELL, Earth. June 8th, 2007. (NASDAQ: HELQ) Hell has Frozen Over.

      In a shocking event, Hell has taken on an icy interior today. Says one demon, "It's actually quite nice, what with the flying bacon and all." Operators of the Infernal Furnace spoke to us briefly: "All the sudden our computers froze", "We were installing a Microsoft Service Pack and all the sudden a penguin came on the screen and the whole environment changed." Hell has scheduled a press conference to happen later this week where we will receive an update on this situation.

      Representatives at Microsoft were not available for comment.

      Contacts:
      Lucifer,
      666-666-1234
      lucifer@inhell.com

      Steve Ballmer,
      666-666-1233
      therealdevil@inhell.com

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    3. Re:Finally by badspyro · · Score: 3, Funny
      I have found the next start-up command for windows...

      apt-get install adware

  3. re by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bill: Tom, I am your father.
    Tom: Really?
    Bill: No, but I hve tons of money for you!
    Tom: Dark side it is!

  4. Typo. by guffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe the title should be: Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Inoperability Slashdot should read through their posts more carefully in the future, so that typos like this doesn't happen.

  5. Chill the still by democrates · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cut the guy some slack, they're probably holding his family hostage. Seriously though, MS issue recruitment staff with MIB memory blanker gizmos. You meet, POOF!, and then believe them when they say "We are your friends! Ak. Akak Ak Ak!"

  6. And Who Did They Hire?? by Black-Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    As director of Linux sue-ability?

  7. Razzing doesn't break bones by cyberianpan · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Brad Smith, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Microsoft, is rumoured to have gotten quite concerned about this development. After reading case law on "duty of care" that an employer ought extend to employees he has arranged for Tom Hanrahan to immediately go on advanced "object avoidance course" which will be taught by crack martial arts instructors. Microsoft is refusing to confirm rumours that Hanrahan is currently in a Seattle gymn with 10 instructors & a number of pieces of "office furniture".

  8. Re:ODF by hxnwix · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'd support ODF -- natively, not through some third-party open source plugin. They'd drop OpenXML. How much more open could the be? OpenXML is an open standard! Look, in order to parse an OpenXML document, you simply open Microsoft word and ...
  9. Re:Once again by milatchi · · Score: 3, Funny

    linuzz rocks
    OMG MS copies Apple again

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  10. Microsoft Director of Linux Interoperability(TM) by thegnu · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is like Microsoft Works(tm), isn't it?

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