Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 13, 2008 @09:30PM from the oxy-meet-moron dept.

hankwang writes "Did you know that Microsoft has ethical guidelines? It's good to know that 'Microsoft did not make any payments to foreign government officials' while lobbying for OOXML, and that 'Microsoft conducts its business in compliance with laws designed to promote fair competition' every time they suppressed competitors. In their Corporate Citizenship section, they discuss how the customer-focused approach creates products that work well with those of competitors and open-source solutions. So all the reverse-engineering by Samba and OpenOffice.org developers wasn't really necessary."

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Microsoft has surrendered to Samba now... by adamkennedy · 2008-10-13 22:53 · Score: 1, Troll

After the Vista debacle and how easy it was for Samba to implement the new CIFS, Microsoft has surrendered to the inevitable now.
They've now built and operate an interoperability testing laboratory for the Samba team to use to improve integration with Samba.