Microsoft Keeps Eye on Open-Source Prize 119
Rob writes to tell us that at the recent Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf, outlined why Microsoft is staying involved with open source. From the article: "Challenges of working [coopetively] in the open-source space include the balance between competing and cooperating with a rival, he said. Perception also is a 'big' challenge for the software giant. 'In many regards, the Microsoft open-source story lends itself to a great metaphor of David and Goliath,' he said. 'That is a challenge over perception.'"
Error in title, please fix (Score:5, Funny)
On target (Score:5, Funny)
Did he mean to say "through the lens of a high-powered rifle's croshairs"?
Freudian slip!!! (Score:5, Funny)
never a truer word spoken... Microsoft loves to coopt software... hates giving back though... just absolutely loves the BSD license
I guess that... (Score:4, Funny)
perceptions (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed. Many people "perceive" their software to be bloated and buggy.
C'mon. Seriously? (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft views open source through the lens of "coopetition from commercial and open-source strategies at the same time," Hilf said.
This sort of blatant disregard for the English language is simply intolerable.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=coopetit
Re:Freudian slip!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Is that the EULA that comes with windows Blue Screen of Death?
Perception (Score:5, Funny)
talk about flipping a metaphor! (Score:5, Funny)
I can't belive that they DARE to try to use David vs Goliath as a metaphor in THEIR FAVOR!
Poor little beaten-down monopoly....
This guy is big! (Score:2, Funny)
He must be a director / big fish. He tells something, everybody knows and still gets public.
Re:Is this a case of david defeating the goliath (Score:4, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot [wikipedia.org]
Re:Freudian slip!!! (Score:2, Funny)
*looks up at the top of the page and gets a chill*
Re:C'mon. Seriously? (Score:2, Funny)
Also, there are 126,000 hits for "omgwtfbbq," but I'm not going to start using that either. ;-p
Re:The only reason MS is interested (Score:2, Funny)
Re:C'mon. Seriously? (Score:1, Funny)
C'mon, somebody was going to say it.
More FUD (Score:2, Funny)