Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 16:19 UTC, submitted by WillM
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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2008-04-20
I used to be strongly anti-microsoft but have really softened as of late. If you look closely at what has been happening within the company you really see some bold changes taking place. Part of this is ScottGu and some just the way the marketplace is changing. We have to keep in mind that MS is a very large company and any change will be fairly slow in coming.
I think we need to start evaluating how "good" a company is by how open they are with their core assets. For example, almost the complete windows codebase is available (mainly to universities). Certainly not open source by any definition, but available. Can anyone let me know where I could find the source code to google search? Actually anything that google actually makes revenue from? Apps? Mail? How about the Oracle DB source? Adobe Flash source? And lets stop being being distracted by things like Google's SoC and see it for what it really is: brilliant marketing. It costs google very little only hurts it's competitors. Any projects there to build an open source search? Let's get a bit smarter in this discussion and stop bashing Microsoft when they seem like one of the few companies that is actually really starting to change and not just doing open source to commoditize their competition.