Reading between the lines with Bill Hilf: Microsoft must really be hurting
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| 100% of the Global 2000 is running Linux. Hordes are flocking to open
| source middleware, databases, and applications. Microsoft can either
| profit from this, or it can continue to try to fight it.
|
| Not that fighting it will do much at this point. It's like gravity. It
| hurts to fall.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/microsoft_confi.html
Related:
Microsoft director out to 'debunk mythology around open source'
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| "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.
|
| [...]
|
| Hilf accused his former employers, IBM, of starting a standards war
| simply because they wanted a part of the Office market. People do
| not want ODF (Open Document Format), but they want a way to control
| the information they create, he claimed.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/090507_Database/09May2007_data05.php
"Microsoft seems to have hijacked Linux Asia"
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| Was the general feel amongst the attendees at Linux Asia 2007;
| MS however, just wanted to say ''let us walk hand-in-hand''
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http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2007/107020104.asp
Microsoft takes on the free world
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| Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk
| of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties
| from distributors and users.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/
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