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Microsoft's Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the we're-open-source-or-maybe-we're-not-we're-trying-to-figure-it-all-out dept.

Most of us don't think of Microsoft when our thoughts turn to open source. This is probably because the company's main products, Windows and Office, are so far from open that just thinking about them probably violates their user agreement.. But wait! says Olivier Bloch, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., we have lots and lots of open source around here. Look at this. And this and this and even this. Lots of open source. Better yet, Olivier works for Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., not directly for the big bad parent company. Watch the video or read the transcript, and maybe you'll figure out where Microsoft is going with their happy talk about open source. (Alternate Video Link)

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  1. "we have lots and lots of open source around here" by Nexus+Unplugged · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and yet, all of Microsoft's flagship products, AFAIK, are the polar opposite of open source. If Microsoft truly thought anything of open source, this should not be the case.

  2. Hyperlinks by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look at this. And this and this and even this.

    Raaawrgh. Not the "this, this and this" dance again. ;) Let me FTFY...

    "Look at Microsoft Open Technologies. And .NET Foundation and a Computerworld article about Internet of Things and even Codeplex."

    A good rule of thumb is that the sentence should be readable even without seeing which URLs the hyperlinks point to.

  3. Halloween Documents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Little bit of Microsoft history for you crazy kids

  4. Re:This is it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    someone, with their head in the sand for the past 20 years, is drinking too much MS-Koolaid for sure. Generally, Microsoft's open source lab or whatever they are calling it today has been all about training someone to move into marketing and develop material and methods to fight customer migrations to open source. They have a long history of this and because they would be DOA without Windows in the market, they can not afford to let or promote any kind of open source which does not lock vendors into Windows.

    Their history has been so filled with attacks on open source and open standards to believe anything they say. It's all marketing all the time.