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Microsoft is Committed to Open Source
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| The irony is the fact that this email came
| out around the same time as Microsoft
| decided to utilize closed source patents in
| IE9 instead of public domain codices such
| as Theora. Apple even followed suit. To
| make matters worse, Microsoft is waging a
| patent war against Android smartphones,
| claiming that they infringe on their
| patents. So with all of this activity
| against open source, how can Microsoft
| claim that they are committed to it?
|
| The thing is, nothing about this makes
| sense. At first, I got the impression that
| they are planning to destroy Open Source
| while masquerading as supporting it. That
| would make sense, given their patent wars
| against open source software. Then again,
| if they really wanted to get word out that
| they support open source, wouldnât they
| push this nonsense to more sources? What
| exactly are they trying to achieve?
|
| Microsoft has a history of not making sense
| when it comes to open source software.
| First, they submit code to the Linux kernel
| knowing that it would never be accepted
| anyway, and then they opened up the Outlook
| file format. After that, this year
| Microsoft starts their war with Android and
| HTC, bullying companies into buying license
| agreements for things that havenât been
| proven to be under Microsoftâs ownership,
| and then announcing that IE9 will use
| proprietary media formats.
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