Open Source Guy Takes the Hardest Job At Microsoft

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 1, 2011 @03:48AM from the because-he-can dept.

jbrodkin writes "Gianugo Rabellino, founder of the Italian Linux Society and a key member of the Apache Software Foundation, traded his Linux and Mac PCs in for a Windows 7 laptop and took on a newly created job at Microsoft designed to encourage collaboration between Redmond and open source communities. 'Developers nowadays are mostly to be found in the open source world,' the new Microsoft executive says. 'We need to go where they are.' With Rabellino's help, Microsoft is expanding its successful partnership with PHP developers , but Steve Ballmer and crew are a long way from completely erasing their poor reputation in Linux and open source circles."

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As always... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-01 03:50 · Score: 5, Informative

It's a trap!
1. Re:As always... by h4rr4r · 2011-03-01 04:15 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  When Microsoft moves on we will. That would mean supporting WebM or another royalty free codec, making silverlight and its DRM modules portable, and not spreading FUD about FREE software.