Star Microsoft's Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Nov 2007 19:46 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft "InformationWeek recently interviewed Bill Hilf, Microsoft's leading light on open source issues. Since coming to Microsoft from IBM in 2003, Hilf has been inextricably involved with Microsoft's strategy for dealing with Linux. He's recently been appointed general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, which means he's taking on an expanded role, but open source is still one of his core issues."
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RE: I.O.U
by lemur2 on Fri 16th Nov 2007 23:56 UTC in reply to "I.O.U"
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2007-02-17

Classically, our preferred plan is to license our technology in a very proactive and productive way versus litigate. So what we try to do is say in a very, very nice way, there's a model here that allows us to be essentially paid some degree for our inventions in a way that says at least for all the money we invest, the $7 billion every year in research, there's a way to see some return on that if someone's using our technology.


I have an alternative plan for you Bill.

Join the OIN, and enjoy the use of their technology.

Or alternatively ... just use some open source software yourself in your own products, and keep with the easy-to-meet requirement of keeping the source open to downstream recipients.

Either way ... you get paid via the efforts of open source, without the need to litigate anything ... which is what you say you want.

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