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Microsoft + Open Source: Too good to be true?

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SearchWin2000.com; By Margie Semilof 		Mail this story
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Bill Hilf, Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, is charging ahead by looking for ways his company can work with open source that he says are beneficial to all. At LinuxWorld Conference & Expo - Boston 2006 last week, Hilf said Microsoft is launching a Web site solely for the purpose of communicating Microsoft's own open source activities.

Bill Hilf spoke with SearchWinIT.com's news director Margie Semilof about Microsoft's activities in community development.

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Comments (3)

Penguin_Pete ·
Next week, the headlines read "Microsoft files patent on the concept of Open Source, buys GPL. Steve Ballmer quote: 'We were here first! It was our idea the whole time!'"
maggrand ·
Well everyone would be very happy if they would do that. Every company in the would could then sue them then. And they would lose big.

This 'We like OpenSource now' is just a way to catch up a train that is running full speed towards 'freedom'. If bill and company can't stop that train they are doomed. If they want to have a small company left they need to embrace opensource and that fast. Microsofts very big mistake was to not do an 'mac os x'. Now we see an reprise of an outdated system that is going to the shelf. Personally i don't know anyone who is interested in bying that. Everyone is talking about Mac OS X and Linux. And i have allready picked my choice 'real freedom'
NoDough ·
I believe what you are seeing is the first phase of the following.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

Be ready to see them cutting deals with FOSS vendors to 'extend' the functionality of their software.

You know the rest.

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