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Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-business-sense dept.

willdavid writes to mention Joe Panettieri is reporting that Microsoft is continuing their push for open source software interoperability. In the most recent push Microsoft is partnering with a small Silicon Valley company called SpikeSource to certify open source software on Windows 2008. "Despite growing Linux deployments, Windows Server remains quite popular for running open source applications. SugarCRM, the fast-growing open source application provider, is quick to note that many of its business developments occur on Windows Server. And Microsoft itself has sponsored SugarCRM's conferences, in order to stay in front of open source crowds."

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  1. Mocking freedom. by gnutoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    People who mock freedom genreally don't have what it takes to keep their own.

    Microsoft is welcome to liberate their code but they would rather try to "stay in front of open source crowds" with chances to sell your freedom. Interoperability is as simple as releasing specs and source code without obligation. Anything less is mockery.

  2. Leave it to someone else. by gnutoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are many people who share your taste but you should not deny others their fun. The amazing thing about free software is that there's always someone who wants to do specific tasks no matter how obscure. There are lots of people who would be very happy if Microsoft gave them software freedom for Windows. The code has leaked several times but it's worthless if it can't be used for any purpose, modified for specific purposes and shared in both modified and unmodified forms. No one wants to do Microsoft's dirty work for free, they want to have the freedom to make their computers work for them. This is why GNU/Linux is everywhere and why it's so much more fun.

  3. Opps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    twitter, I think you mistakenly thought you were posting as yourself, but you're actually using one of your sockpuppets that are not supposed to do the "M$ Windoze" thing, lest they be actually identified as your sockpuppets even more easily.

    Just look at the stink people made over something as trivial as *gasp* Apple offering another browser on Windows.

    Yes, that went very well for you, even going so far as to shill your own posts, as you are doing all over this article.