Microsoft Launches Windows/Linux Site

[Dapper Dan]

http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=7341

[fingal]

I don't know ... I really don't. <off topic>Have a happy Easter though.</off topic>

[Jiraiya-sama]

itsatrap.ytmnd.com

[Dapper Dan]

I don't know ... I really don't. <off topic>Have a happy Easter though.</off topic>

And a HAPPY EASTER to you too Fingal!

[carlosponti]

i honestly dont see any good coming of microsoft "researching" linux. having a web page communicating thier good will towards linux gives me the hee bee jeebies.

[Jiraiya-sama]

if ms had any good will toward anything open source they would have adopted .odf, freed up their fat patents, and supported opengl better on their windows systems.

this reminds me of the saying "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer"

[Weedman]

First and foremost, Happy Easter to all!

Secondly, I really don't like what M$ is doing. It just doesn't feel right.
I think that M$ is going to steal the ideas from Linux and it's open source programs, and directly destroy linux & the open source stuff.

Pardon me for the apocalyptic approach to this, but I can't see this being any benifit to FOSS in the long term.

~the_weedman

[djhobo9]

I think that M$ is going to steal the ideas from Linux and it's open source programs, and directly destroy linux & the open source stuff.

Not possible. In terms of new and innovative things that the user wants, open-source will always be one step ahead just because it's made by users for users. Case in point: tabbed browsing in Firefox. Tabbed browsing in IE is still in beta as we speak, and this is several years later. We still have package management, Xgl, and hundreds of other things they don't. By the time they "work them into their schedule", we'll have a hundred new things on the desktop and under the hood that they'd never have thought of.

A wealthy corporation can't stop a not-for-profit one... especially a community so widely spread over the face of the planet that isn't technically an organization or entity in the way most people are familiar with. They can't put us out of business, because we're not in business.

The only way MS will ever "stop" Linux will be to put out a piece of software that is in every possible way better than Linux-- and all the software associated with it. Linux users would have to be saying "Wow, Windows really is better! I'm switching back." It would take a big change to make that happen. That's one reason this doesn't worry me at all.

You might say they're trying to steal concepts from Linux. Well, fine! It's not like anyone here is really trying to hide what they're doing. Search about a potential new piece of FOSS software and you'll find a page all about what's included. As long as Linux developers refrain from handing Microsoft actual code (which they can't do anyway because of licensing issues), there's nothing to worry about. Going back to tabbed browsing, of course they knew about it years ago. It was their mistake to wait so long before doing smething--and they lost a ton of users to Mozilla.

I think this might end up being rather entertaining.

[easuter]

yeah. ms steals ideas anyways, whether its from partners or competitors.

if ms really wants to ensure interoperability and compatability with other systems, a good start would be complying with international standards, instead of making bastardized proprietary ones....

[budman7]

Hey guys, as per the rules, could you edit your posts to take out the "m$" and replace it with "ms"?
I consider "m$" to be leetspeak.

In addition this rule applies to the Spelling of Microsoft (and others). No matter how many moments of frustration you've had with Microsoft's products it doesn't mean that the spelling changes. In other words, Microsoft is not spelled microshit, microshaft, micro$oft, microcrap, or any varient thereof - such spelling will be considered l33tspeek, and moderated as such.