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Keep Your Eyes Open
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| One of the unexpected benefits of Microsoft's desire to get some hot
| openness-juice is that in its effort to appear open it is revealing far more
| of its internal thought processes. Here's a fascinating document coming out
| of that – actually a job advertisement for the post of Senior Marketing
| Manager – Open Source Community.
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| [...]
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| So, let's see, who's the loser here? Oh, look, it's GNU/Linux: moving
| the “open source stacks” to the Microsoft platform means swapping out
| GNU/Linux for Windows. Indeed, as I've suggested before, this represents the
| core idea of Microsoft's current tactics: to marginalise GNU/Linux, while
| making soothing noises to the world of open source apps.
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| Why might that be? Well, if you think about it, GNU/Linux is by far the most
| mature, most successful and most resilient open source project. Open source
| apps, by contrast, are relatively nenwcomers to the enterprise scene, with
| weak roots there. Bolstering the latter will do very little harm to
| Microsoft's bottom line; encouraging them to work with Microsoft on Windows
| ports, and then encouraging customers to play Swap-a-Stack will, though,
| undermine GNU/Linux's growing position in the enterprise.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=843&blogid=14
Related:
Should Microsoft Hack Linux Events?
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| Another episode of the LinuxAsia event is round the corner. Like the last
| year, Microsoft is there again. Is it appropriate of the most closed company
| to be there at the event? Don't just read the story go to the given link and
| see Microsoft is a sponsor....
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/Should_Microsoft_Hack_Linux_Events
"Microsoft seems to have hijacked Linux Asia"
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| Was the general feel amongst the attendees at Linux Asia 2007;
| MS however, just wanted to say ''let us walk hand-in-hand''
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http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2007/107020104.asp
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