[ale] OT - Microsoft goes Open Source

[Dow Hurst]

A nod toward surviving in a new world?  I agree with Aaron that this is 
probably one of the least Open Source in philosophy releases or the least 
impacting they could put out there since it promotes a Windows OS.  Unless, 
this release could help out Wine and Codeweavers.  However, I bet we see more 
as MicroSoft starts feeling the pinch.  What do you say that we make a bet? 
We could have a poll as to how long before MicroSoft loses a 30% increment of 
it MSOffice market.  Those who pick the right dates contribute money toward an 
Opensource project of their choosing(can't be your own project). ;)

We could even do the poll in increments of 10% for OS, Enterprise, and Office 
categories.  So I could say 3 years and 40% of Exchange lost to MS.

Fun to brainstorm on this topic!
Dow


Keith R. Watson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Another sysadmin sent me this and I thought the list might like to know 
> about it considering Microsoft's previous stand on the subject of open 
> source.
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5185549.html
> 
> Microsoft -- facing increasing pressure from open-source competition -- 
> made a nod to open source fans on Monday. The company "published the 
> code for one of its products on an open-source software development Web 
> site late Monday, departing from its hard-line stance against making the 
> underlying components of its technology available to the general 
> public," CNET's News.com reported. "Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft 
> revealed the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX) software, a set of 
> tools used to build installation packages for the company's Windows 
> products from XML source code. According to the information posted on 
> the SourceForge site, a resource for open-source collaboration projects, 
> the actual code Microsoft published supports an environment that 
> software developers can use for creating Windows setup packages."
> . CNET's News.com: Microsoft Airs Tools' Source Code Online
> 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/
> http://wix.sourceforge.net/
> 
>    this redirects to
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/category/4625.aspx
> 
> 
> in shock,
> keith
> 
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