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Since we're talking about ReiserFS, which is open source, and this idiot is telling us that since he thinks that everybody thinks that Microsoft is evil we should stop using ReiserFS as well...... Does that blow your mind enough?


Ahhhhhhhh, Moonlight. If Silverlight ever gets to a critical mess, we'll come back and see how compatible Moonlight is then, OK? This is a technology where Microsoft is behind. I did mention track record, right?


Where is the source code, what is the license and who controls said codecs? A promise not to sue, is just that. A promise, and a promise is not legally binding. Additionally, Moonlight has no codecs to speak of, and can only use ffmpeg currently.


No evidence of that happening. Contributions to Samba? Contributions to Open Office? You know, actual code?


I think you might want to take a look around and see if there is actually anything useful on there ;-).


Vice versa? Errrrr, no.


Show me the code ;-). I have yet to see anything of note come out of that for anyone apart from soundbites about how Microsoft is now so open source friendly.


Yes. Open source projects on their platforms with not a single line of code from their platforms in sight.


That makes me feel so much better. The OSP is a promise and not a license, and legally speaking means zilch. It also only applies to you if you take a piece of technology as-is, so if you embed it into another project that does something different, hmmmmm. That's not covered.

It's all smoke and mirrors, or as former Microsoft employee Joel Spolsky says, fire and motion ;-).