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Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-hostile-territory dept.

coondoggie writes "Microsoft's Sam Ramji is like a turkey knocking on Thanksgiving's door. Ramji has the unenviable task of stretching his neck out into the open source world as Microsoft's representative. On top of it, his employer has preheated the oven with years of hubris, sleights of hand and broken promises. Ramji's Sisyphean task was evident last week in Portland at the Open Source Conference (OSCon) and will likely be fuel for chatter at next week's LinuxWorld gathering in San Francisco."

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  1. I don't give a **** about Microsoft... by advocate_one · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    just stop polluting my favourite projects with windows only perversions... Open source is supposed to be cross platform... I don't want any "improvements" made to projects so they run better on windows... in fact I'd prefer it it if people stopped porting things to run on windows... make all the best stuff available on Linux...

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  2. Re:So welcome them in.. by MrMr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One of the many you mean, nothing hurts like the truth...

  3. Re:Let's embrace and extend FIRST! by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm having a hard time seeing the open-source community actually being capable of doing something new and interesting. (That's not a troll, it's just the way software development works. Microsoft can direct programmers; open-source can't do so as effectively.)

    Besides, what you propose is sickeningly hypocritical. "We won't share with them what they've shared with us"? I get that the GNUtard contingent is okay with screwing people over to fit their ideology (BSD devs say hi), but don't you think that's a little fucked up?

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