Microsoft resumes bashing open source

Quoting:It's true that there's a spectrum between fully open and fully proprietary; Microsoft deems it judicious to offer a few open-source projects, while companies at the other end such as Red Hat try to be as purely open-source as possible. Some are in the middle: Adobe has made some significant open-source moves, as with its Flex tool for Flash animation creation, while keeping its cash-cow Creative Suite firmly proprietary. Sun Microsystems, meanwhile, is in the process of moving its entire software suite into the open-source realm, with major portions such as Solaris and Java already moved.

But Matt Asay, vice president of business development at open-source document management company Alfresco (disclosure: Asay also is a blogger for CNET Networks), sees things differently from Patterson.