Should Microsoft Really Bundle Open Source Software?
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| Microsoft doesn’t provide a GridView, tells us developers that’s all we’ll
| ever need for displaying data, and then closes the door on other control
| vendors who might want to provide developers with an alternative grid
| control. Hell no.
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| Instead, they make it easy for control vendors to provide their own controls
| and have a first-class integrated experience (with design time support
| etc...) within the Visual Studio IDE because they recognize they don’t have
| the bandwidth to build everything top shelf. This sort of forward thinking
| should apply anytime they plan to ship a crappy stopgap implementation.
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http://haacked.com/archive/2007/09/04/should-microsoft-really-bundle-open-source-software.aspx
Here they are stepping on a the toes of a 'partner':
Microsoft, Novell, square off on configuration tools
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| Microsoft and Novell may be working together on some areas of technology, but
| the two firms will soon be going head-to-head in the market for improved
| enterprise configuration management.
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http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/91e7656e-7f35-4028-9679-fd3b824cd87b.html
Novell grins while Microsoft backstabs.
Related:
My resolve to treat Microsoft like any another license submitter is being
sorely tested.
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| They haven't stopped at pushing a "standard" that is divisive, technically
| bogus, and an obvious tool of monopoly lock-in; they have resorted to lying,
| ballot-stuffing, committee-packing, and outright bribery to ram it through
| the ISO standardization process in ways that violate ISO's own guidelines
| wholesale.
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| [...]
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| This is not behavior that we, as a community, can live with. Despite my
| previous determination, I find I'm almost ready to recommend that OSI tell
| Microsoft to ram its licenses up one of its own orifices, even if they are
| technically OSD compliant. Because what good is it to conform to the letter
| of OSD if you're raping its spirit?
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http://opensource.org/node/192
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