Star Microsoft Woos OSDL for New Linux Offensive
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st Aug 2005 14:35 UTC
Microsoft Microsoft has once again stirred up a hornets nest in the open-source community, this time approaching the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) to work with it on a joint, independent research project to do some facts-based analysis of Linux and Windows.
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"That is a dumb arguement. Red Hat could turn around and look at the points against Linux in the survey and improve their own products. Somehow Microsoft is the only company capable of improving their products I take it?"


I think you misunderstood me. I was saying that's what the perception would be. I was not saying that linux
is/was lagging behind I am saying that people will remember the results of the surveys.
1. OSDL && MS survey were they both come out slightly negative
2. MS sponsered research where those bad points are overcome.

Wether linux has overcome them or not there will be no survey to say they or that they havent. In the mind of executives MS improved and linux hadnt...

Could you tell i was giving a possible scenario and what MS's possible stance could be? Read the whole comment next time

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