Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface'

sfcrazy writes "Now, Microsoft is coining yet another term to further confuse users — 'Open Surface.' Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, Gianugo Rabellino, said at Oscon 2011 that customers don't care about the underlying platform as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open. That's when he threw the term 'open surface.'" This seems to have more than a grain of truth to it — after all, programmers have been creating open-source software with closed-source programming languages for many years, and I'm certainly more impressed by Google's willingness to let me export my data than I am turned off by the fact that they use a mix of open and closed source software to run the Google circus.

Comments

Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it is a clear evolution. "Free software" -> "Open source" -> "Open surface".

But then, those who really care already understand what I mean.

Re:What is the point of the linked page?

[Sulphur]

This is so backwards from Slashdot norm. A summary with a tidbit of "news" in it and intelligently written opinion, no FA to read.

Am I missing something, did Microsoft not really coin this term or is there some biased, slanderous opinion that was unintentionally left out of the summary?

In other words, an Open Surface post.

Re:Embrace, Extend & try the tuna salad

[Hognoxious]

Look on the bright side - with M$ involved nobody's going to suggest intelligent design.

Open Cybercloud

[qxcv]

Is it just me, or are open* and cloud* becoming the new cyber*?

Middle manager: "Hey, did you try the new CyberCloud 2.0 Open-Surface ® operating system by OpenMicrosoft ®?"

MS patent goon: "You bet your Zune ® I did! It allows me to innovate my value-added cyberdata to enhance availability in scalable cloud based enterprise architectures channeling an enterprise virtualisation solution, thus leveraging existing ROI and increasing key delivarables as per OpenMicrosoft ® BestPractise ®!"