Microsoft und Open Source

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Wer glaubt, Microsoft und Open Source sind unvereinbar? Oder Microsoft und Linux vertragen sich nicht? Sie? Dann schauen Sie sich mal auf Port25 um.

Es geht um Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab und versteht sich als offene Community für Open Source Gedanken und Interoperability.

Rob Mensching spricht in einem Interview über sein Baby, Windows Installer XML (WIX) und dessen Entwicklung zum Open Source Projekt sowie Feedback Driven Development.

Interessant ist auch ein Kommentar von Chris Travers, einem ehemaligen Microsoft-Mitarbeiter:

"I have seen all kinds of Microsoft employees, and I was not the only one to run exclusively non-Microsoft platforms at home. One guy on my team was pretty much a Mac guy, and I knew a guy who ran almost exclusively BSD at home (he also had a microvax which he didn't use anymore). In general, of the people who were deeply *interested* in competitive strategy (rather than merely afraid of the competition), most were interesting, thoughtful, and respectful. Most of these people didn't want the competition to go away, but rather just saw it as a good game."