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techiem2

Nov 09, 2008
7:47 PM EST
Quoting:"We believe that enterprises and vendors should have a choice of software development methodology, and open source is one such choice."


They forgot "as long as they pay us for the platform to run it on and pay for plenty of access licenses".
tuxchick

Nov 09, 2008
7:52 PM EST 		And patent licenses. And as long as they don't have to contribute anything back.
jdixon

Nov 09, 2008
8:42 PM EST 		> open source is one such choice.

Unstated: "Unless it's the GPL of course. That's not an option."
vainrveenr

Nov 09, 2008
11:31 PM EST 		... and again the Borg ship draws nigh :

"We are Borg. You (Open Source) will be interoperated upon. GPL-resistance is futile"
garymax

Nov 10, 2008
3:26 AM EST
Quoting:Microsoft 'Not Against' Open Source


And the wolf wasn't against little red riding hood either...
tracyanne

Nov 10, 2008
4:11 AM EST 		Microsoft has no problems with Open Source Software, what they have a problem with is Free Open Source Software.
Sander_Marechal

Nov 10, 2008
5:17 AM EST 		Microsoft doesn't have a problem with FOSS as much as they have a problem with Linux. They're trying to kick Linux out from under the stack and make it all run on Windows.

That just strengthens my belief that Mono is not about luring Windows programmers onto Linux but the other way around.
hkwint

Nov 10, 2008
3:04 PM EST
Quoting:Microsoft has no problems with Open Source Software


In fact they do. That's why they rather paid €497M than opening only their protocols.

Quoting:That just strengthens my belief that Mono is not about luring Windows programmers onto Linux but the other way around.


Did read Microsofts 'secret' document "Power Evangelism"? It's still on Ken's a.k.a. Helios' server.

http://lobby4linux.com/documents/MicrosoftWar.pdf

Kind of old, but the mentality is still there. Somewhere across those pages you will read multiple times that platforms are more important than selling Windows.
Sander_Marechal

Nov 10, 2008
4:36 PM EST
Quoting:In fact they do. That's why they rather paid €497M than opening only their protocols.


But those docs had only one purpose: make other operating systems (a.k.a. Linux) work better with MS protocols.

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