Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community

Rip theirs arms off and hit 'em with the soggy ends!

;-)

I don't think that anyone should trust MSFT.

See "Brill's Content" of Sept 98, I think, also the emails entered into evidence in the anti-trust trials, also Burst v MSFT, and many, many others.

http://www.users.qwest.net/~eballen1/msft.shilling.html proves that they lie a lot.

As a personality, MSFT is a sociopath.

You missed of the end part of the story title it should of read, Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community and attempts to strangle it!

phsolide: You know I wrote this in response to the poll (cited as the one they stuffed).

http://linuxtoday.com/best.php3

The poll is closed now, of course, but it was fun while it lasted.

Pick windows for a laugh :-)

--FeriCyde

This is taken from the old addage- " keep your friends close", so you can steal their businesses and "keep you enemies closer" so you can eat their canolies.

Well, it's nice to see the communists and cancers stay under the table this time. That's the tendency at MS, they eventually found out the cancer-speaches etc. backfired. That's the reason this article is interesting: the tone of the FUD is changing. Instead of a direct attack, they choose to act like they care and they know what they're talking about (remember the guy they bought from Red Hat), and then, they sneak in with their lies. It's funny if you read the second page of the article, you immediately see this Brad-person isn't serious at all, if you read his point of view regarding patents. Even more funny is to watch his biography: Brad shows up every time to clean up the mess when MS did something stupid, like Ballmer & friends talking about communists, AOL, EU problems etc. (it's at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/bradsmith/default.as... )

FOSS always had Olive Branch in the left hand, especially for MS and because of its dominance. MS ignored it, then laughed at it, then they declared war against it. MS is being realistic now and they see what is coming. It wants to have peace before FOSS wins. Well, Well, Well. FOSS is open to cooperate with all because it is for all. One advice MS, the right hand of Foss has a club just for you just in case. Don't you forget that.

There are certain people and certain organizations that are just never going to "get" it. Microsoft is one of those organizations. They can wear all the hats of open source, and they might even try on its clothes, but never will they understand why the community has those hats and those clothes. This fact is apparent just based on the premise that they want to have a sit down. Open source developers don't sit, they do. If Microsoft wants to be friends and play nice, they will just stop doing whatever it is they have been doing to throw us off. Can I think of some examples?

- blocking wine users from installing IE - switching formats of MS Office documents every release - not following the W3C proposed standards in IE - ignoring Linux and then bashing it when they could just as easily use it to their advantage (bashing technology for the sake of pride)

- blocking wine users from installing IE - switching formats of MS Office documents every release - not following the W3C proposed standards in IE - ignoring Linux and then bashing it when they could just as easily use it to their advantage (bashing technology for the sake of pride)

Points all well made and equally taken. I don't trust these friggin' snakes any farther than I can match their checkbooks. The ruthlessness of Microsoft is well documented and if we remember nothing, we need to remember that M$ considers Linux an enemy. (Ballmers words not mine). I am personally suspect of any olive branch. My first question is, "what is it coated with?"

helios