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Microsoft Launches OSS Site, Submits License For Approval

Posted by Zonk on from the working-together-hand-in-hand dept.

prostoalex writes "Microsoft has launched a site dedicated to collaboration between Microsoft and open source community. The site helps developers, IT administrators, and IT buyers find out what Microsoft's product offerings are, and read articles about open source such as 'Open Source Provider Sees Sales Doubling After Moving Solutions to the Windows Platform.'" Relatedly, CNet has the news that the company has submitted its shared-sources license to the OSI for approval.

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  1. RUN AWAY!! by Divebus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do like Microsoft does with standards... run away as far as possible as fast as you can.

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    Most of the stuff on /. won't survive first contact with facts.
  2. Seen it before by gentimjs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, and Attorney General Gonzalez swore to tell the truth before being questioned by the senate... And we all see how much -that- meant ...

  3. The real reason by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that Balmer has run out of chairs. By doing this he hopes to gain access to all the Open Source communities chairs.

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    1. Re:The real reason by Howitzer86 · · Score: 5, Funny

      He'll get my chair when he prys it from my cold dead ass.

  4. Re:Talent Poaching. by snoyberg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Subversion.

    Nah, I'm sure Microsoft uses their own source management tool...

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  5. First product: New, free Microsoft OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...OpenBSoD

  6. Re:It's a trap. by grcumb · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I know Microsoft. It's a trap.

    It wasn't meant to be. Things would have been a lot clearer to everyone, but the domain that Ballmer wanted was already taken.

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  7. A Microsoft OSS Site? I've said it before... by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a cookbook!!

  8. Okay, this is just to much by realdodgeman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft will survive this one only because they aim so badly that they miss their own feet.

  9. Re:A Microsoft OSS Site? I've said it before... by niko9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Crap. I meant to type To serve penguins. I guess Linux really is dead on the desktop. :/