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Microsoft and its open source plans

July 26, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 1 year, 3 months ago
By: Darryl K. Taft

Once again, Microsoft has used the O'Reilly Open Source Convention as a venue to make a key announcement about the company's involvement with open-source initiatives. This year Microsoft is unveiling moves in three areas, including becoming a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.

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Do not neglect history when evaluating M$'s moves...

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 127.0.0.1] on July 26, 2008 07:36 PM

If you ever feel warm and fuzzy about M$, read this article, written by M$ and not intended to be published. It came out in Comes v Microsoft:

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf

Pay close attention to

page 54 Stacking a Panel

page 119 Mind Control "Take control of the channels by which developers receive information. Then they can only think about the things you tell them."

page 124 Developer magazines - infiltrate and subvert

page 126 hire consultants to write books