Star Microsoft's Ozzie Talks Open Source, Mesh
Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 16:19 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft Microsoft has "dramatically" changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft's mesh concept and the importance of virtualization.
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RE[2]: WTL
by gustl on Sat 19th Apr 2008 19:52 UTC in reply to "RE: WTL"
gustl
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2006-01-19

I don't think MS really gets open source yet, but they are moving in that directions. I would say in another 5 years or so we will be seeing substancial, community oriented open source projects coming out of redmond.


I don't think so. Microsoft convinced me over the last year, that they will never change their ways. They got fined the largest amount of money that ever someone had to pay because of market distorting behaviour, and it changed absolutely nothing in their behaviour.

I think they will put open source projects on the net, to get gratis development and beta testing for software where they know they will not see a dime for anyway, but they need to be able to offer a full software ecosystem. But I think they will continue to ruin their "technology partners" (not their sales partners), continue to buy themselves into political decisions, in one word - behave on the borderline of the law and far beyond the borderline of moral and ethics.

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