Is Microsoft Open Source's Friend?
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Does Microsoft's interoperability pledge mean it's truly opening up? Alex Wolfe, InformationWeek's Wolfe's Den blogger, opines, and we also hear from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and chief software architect Ray Ozzie.
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| I agree; it sounds ... ( 7 months ago by rml695) |
| I agree; it sounds like Microsoft is now trying to standardize open source, and thus make it closed source, and that's not right. |
| *Sigh*. Putting up ... ( 6 months ago by websnarf) |
| *Sigh*. Putting up a bunch of documents describing their file formats is at best an adherence to *open standards* which is *NOT* the same thing as open source. Embracing open source means abandoning patent based litigation threats, contributing code, and not acting against open source platforms via proprietary means. Support for Samba, for example, would probably be very helpful and welcome from the open source community. |
| Nop. Guys it does ... ( 6 months ago by SmileHeart4ever) |
| Nop. Guys it does that to document their code for sake, have you ever seen a bunch of code without proper documentation .. No one can standarise your source but for sure can help you build it on proper patterns and well structured and optimized one MS is a Company such like other software vendors and it has all the right to protect its platform code but look at every product released by Microsoft, NOTICE IT HAS SDK to allow developers (Heroes) to develop and integrate their applications with it |
| Microsoft an Open ... ( 6 months ago by carlostinonsa) |
| Microsoft an Open Source friend? yeah in my dreams, just hear Ballmer saying bad things about Open Source, well i really understand themselves, Linux is an strong competitor, Microsoft can leave any advantage for they, They are opposite things Closed and Open, NOT compatible, but in some case they use Open Source methodology to show code to some developers plus few more things, but i thing it stills need time to see a good interoperability with Open Source. |
| I believe this is ... ( 4 months ago by adorablepuppy) |
| I believe this is saying that they're going to try to find new ways to do old things to avoid going by pre-established standards and define their own standards as they always have. I also believe this push on new "inter operable" services to be Microsoft's scared attempt to regain internet market share from Google's fine services. An old strategy with a fresh marketing campaign. |
| Ozzie's " ... ( 1 month ago by RationalEmotive) |
| Ozzie's "constraints can be liberating" sounds more than Orwellian, pretty evil indeed. As you well recognized the aim is to yet again promote arbitrary new networking standards and allow users maybe to develop on top of those and around them but not question the unknown code itself. They can try, but MS's time is over. Not to endorse Bush but: "My answer is: bring 'em on!" |
| I don't know why ... ( 4 days ago by KohrsAKT) |
| I don't know why Ballmer scares me. |