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[News] Microsoft Wants to 'Extend' OSS Projects the Windows Way

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Microsoft, its time to officially rescind the Linux lawsuit threats

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| At this point in the game, Microsoft should really come clean with a 
| statement that rescinds its Linux/patent/suing threat altogether. Granted, 
| Microsoft put itself in a hard spot with this one, since it had its channel 
| singing the same tune for those murky months after the threat.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| It is one of the contributors to Zend Framework (albeit, so are 400 others, 
| including Google). It intends to support Zend on Microsoft's identity 
| platform, CardSpace.     
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/30478

Should We Fear the (Microsoft) Geeks, Bearing Gifts?

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| I predict that in the coming months we'll see plenty of visits to Seattle by 
| Apache coders, and plenty of help coming from Microsoft engineers in terms of 
| tweaking and optimising Apache code on Windows. Indeed, it's already 
| happening: "The company recently invited several Apache contributors to visit 
| its Redmond headquarters for informal interoperability talks." The mention of 
| one of Microsoft's favourite memes, "interoperability", also raises the 
| possibility of Apache starting to add Microsoft's proprietary 
| technologies - .NET, for example - effectively forking the project.       
| 
| There's a common theme here: replacing GNU/Linux at the bottom of the open 
| source stack, and making the applications more Windows-friendly. Microsoft 
| seems to think – rightly, in my view – that the free software threat to its 
| business will be blunted considerably if it can move users of enterprise open 
| source applications onto Windows by encouraging and optimising ports to that 
| platform. Steve Ballmer's own words, contained in a recent memo to the whole 
| company about future strategy, highlight the importance of beating GNU/Linux 
| in this sector:        
| 
| 
| "Business and enterprise: Our enterprise and server business has never been 
| stronger—today we are on the verge of becoming the number one enterprise 
| software company. We need to continue to push on all fronts—mail with 
| Exchange, business intelligence with PerformancePoint, virtualization with 
| Hyper-V, and databases with SQL Server. We have to drive our enterprise 
| search capabilities, our unified communications solutions, and our 
| collaboration technologies. And we must continue to compete against Linux in 
| key workloads such as Web servers and high performance computing."       
| 
| Notice how GNU/Linux is singled out as the main threat in this area, and that 
| the Web server sector – Apache's territory – is mentioned by name.  
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1075&blogid=14


Recent:

Microsoft and Apache

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| It all sounds good. But Apache is no threat to Microsoft, their projects run
| on Microsoft systems and their license doesn't prevent "embrace and enhance".
| Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, those are more of a threat. This is, obviously, a
| strategic move by Microsoft. I'm trying to convince myself that we
| didn't "get owned".
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/25/46596
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