Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 12th May 2007 21:40 UTC, submitted by dylansmrjones
"The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today." Controversial statements from the head of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf. Speaking on the last leg of a tour of Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, Bill Hilf, more formally known as Microsoft's platform strategy director, was in the region to 'be descriptive and intelligent in giving people an understanding of open source and debunk a lot of the mythology around open source'.
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2005-07-06
Shooting down the rest is like shooting fish in a barrel, anyway.
The bit about the input system - well, there was a rather famous series of videos of someone not remotely related to Microsoft doing that last year. Microsoft in stealing idea and presenting it as their own shock, hold the front page! No, wait, that goes on page 15 with the rest of yesterday's news. Secondly, it's a straw man: the EU hasn't told Microsoft to 'open up' anything like experimental input systems, and no-one's even asked them to. Thirdly, it would be extremely straightforward to standardize, because we *already* have USB input standardization and no matter how jazzy the human interaction side of things is, as far as representing the input to the computer goes, it's just the same as any other input device.
Honestly, you'd think Microsoft would be able to do better than this.