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Can Microsoft 'do' open source by 2015?

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The recently appointed head of Microsoft's global Linux and open source team hopes the company will have a clear and comprehensible open source strategy by 2015. Sam Ramji wants people to clearly understand what projects the company is contributing to, and what code Microsoft is making available - along with the terms - on a routine basis. It seems Ramji is talking about people both inside and outside Microsoft knowing what’s going on. "We don't have hard rules... right now, it's still careful judgment case by case. By 2015, I think it would be set up a," he told Reg Dev, just before his promotion.

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r_a_trip ·
MS Open Source most likely will be look but don't use. You can bet they will use licenses which limit the broad reusability of the code (Incompatible with GPL/Apache/MPL/BSD) or use licenses which let you examine the code, but not modify and redistribute.

Open Source Linux-style is not in MS interest. Everything not in MS interest is not going to happen. Expect some heavy duty lip service.
vainrveenr ·
Quoting:Open Source Linux-style is not in MS interest. Everything not in MS interest is not going to happen. Expect some heavy duty lip service.
At the same time, it is somewhat fascinating how Microsoft's Ramji is so urgently attempting to win over Open Source developers at the present time. MS is currently - attempting to rapidly hasten adoption of its Silverlight - making its Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 more easily available to Open Source developers - heavily involving itself with this Summer's 2008 Open Source Convention (OSCON) http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/home

One can see this MS-targeting of Open Source developers --- as part of its overall "Embrace" mantra --- through the current '{Open Source} Heroes' initiative. As this is written, the main URL for this particular initiative is http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/heroes/default.mspx and here is part of its description :
Quoting:Forge new powers. Be a hero. What makes you a hero? For many, it is doing what you love, and doing it well. That's why Microsoft believes in providing a broad range of choices for developing and deploying Open Source software.

With Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, your choices just got better. Whether it's developer support for dynamic languages, reference source and code sharing, or improved management and identity tools, flexible virtualization or next-generation Web programming - these tools push the bar higher and higher.

Order your own Hero Hack Pack and get started with Open Source. Each Hack Pack contains a trial copy of Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, plus a chance to win a free pass to OSCON 2008! Do what you love, do it well. And do it with the tools that push the bar. Order the Hero Hack Pack

{Open Source} Heroes happen here.
The first link on the very top of this {Open Source} Heroes site is a link to install Silverlight. On the far left area of the site are a list of Open Source "Heroes" developers with brief bios. Just below the list of MS "Hero" developers are the following three links: 'Getting Started', http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/heroes/gettingstarted.ms... 'Order a Hero Hack Pack', https://microsoft.order-7.com/opensource/ 'Open Source at Microsoft', http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/default.mspx

So one can readily discern even from this single {Open Source} Heroes initiative alone that Microsoft is ALREADY carrying out "heavy duty lip service".

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jacog ·
I'm confused... is that campaign targeted at children? The copy sounds like something one might read on a promotion for a new Happy Meal TM.

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