Commentary: Beware when Microsoft reaches out
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| eWeek.com this week ran a story entitled "Can Windows and Open Source
| Learn to Play Nice?"...
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| I've been watching Microsoft's Machiavellian machinations since IBM gave
| the company the corner on the PC operating system business in the early
| '80s, and when they "reach out," it's either to steal something or to
| hurt someone.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft's Muglia: "The GPL has an inherent incompatibility that is, to my
| knowledge, impossible to overcome."
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| [...]
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| Microsoft learned TCP from BSD and stole Kerberos from MIT.
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| [...]
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| Muglia counts his colleague Bill Hilf's research on fodder for its
| "Get the facts" campaign and future purchased benchmarks, should Vista
| ever be released, as being about "interoperability." It's all an effort to
| make Microsoft look like a reasonable party and the GPL crowd as
| wild-eyed, anti-business zealots.
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| [...]
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| The answer now, then, and always is that Microsoft never plays nice with
| anyone, though all their money, cachet in the trade press, and guile seek
| to convince us otherwise.
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