I'm sorry but if this many intelligent people actually believe Microsoft is just *now* putting Linux and every other package that competes against them in a lab for testing, I'm losing faith in the education system that awards engineering degrees.
And if you claim that you used to work at Microsoft and therefore you know their policy on open source, then I'll claim I'm a citizen of the US and therefore I know our policy on intelligence gathering on Iraq and the Peruvian drug trade.
The *only* reason to *announce* Linux testing is in preperation for announcing A) Superiority of B) some plan for interoperability. Given their track record for 'playing well with others' I tend to doubt option 'B'.
this will be a venue to generate more FUD as well as an attempt to get a competitive edge?
That is nearly guaranteed. I find it difficult (if not impossible) to believe that Microsoft has not been running Linux in test labs all along. The only reason to *announce* they are running it would be as a precursor to some other news release. And I doubt the real news release would be to spread any kind admiration for Linux or anything else open source.
Don't get me wrong. I stand in awe of people who can design transistors or even who can put up drywall. But there is arrogance inside the scientific mind, and it rarely knows when to stop.
Yeah... imagine the arrogance of someone who would try to blatently
copy something and think nobody'd notice?
Does that mean I get sued for the derivative work I put in this reply?
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Sheez...
A) Their superiority
Must have been something subliminal...
And if you claim that you used to work at Microsoft and therefore you know their policy on open source, then I'll claim I'm a citizen of the US and therefore I know our policy on intelligence gathering on Iraq and the Peruvian drug trade.
The *only* reason to *announce* Linux testing is in preperation for announcing A) Superiority of B) some plan for interoperability. Given their track record for 'playing well with others' I tend to doubt option 'B'.
That is nearly guaranteed. I find it difficult (if not impossible) to believe that Microsoft has not been running Linux in test labs all along. The only reason to *announce* they are running it would be as a precursor to some other news release. And I doubt the real news release would be to spread any kind admiration for Linux or anything else open source.
Yeah... imagine the arrogance of someone who would try to blatently copy something and think nobody'd notice?
Does that mean I get sued for the derivative work I put in this reply?