Microsoft's Mundie to Continue OSS Outreach

Techie writes "In an interview with eWeek Craig Mundie, Microsoft's new co-head-honcho and chief research and strategy officer, says he plans to continue to push the Redmond software titan forward with its goal of greater interoperability with software licensed under the GPL." From the article: "Even in Bill's own public remarks, he pointed out that he thought his iconic status and the way that was reported tended to overemphasize his role in the company's innovation and execution. This is really a transition that has been in the works for a couple of years, with a couple to go before, and we will see the emergence of a lot of great talent that has today been portrayed as all Bill. This is a company with, in many cases, the best people in the world. "

At the risk of sounding like Fark

[AuMatar]

Its a trap!

So they want to be friends, eh?

[ClamIAm]

So they want to extinguish their bad-guy image, and extend an embrace towards the GPL?

Wait, maybe I have this backwards...

Re:At the risk of sounding like Fark

[CrazyJim1]

It sounds more like Emporer Palpatine trying to bring Anakin over to the darkside.

Global Warming isn't anymore !

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell just froze over.

Re:Deeds rather than words.

[Anonymous Coward]

Example:

While being mugged:
"Take it easy man. All I've got is a 16 dollar bill!"

Re:Don't trust Mundie

[killjoe]

So what happened? Did God speak to him last night and pointed out the error of his ways? Exactly how does one change such fundamentally held beliefs in such a short time anyway?

I think occams razor applies here. He has lied dozens of times in the press already. What's more likely? he is lieing now or he has truly changed his mind and now wants to make sure all MS products can work with GPLed software.

Let's take a vote.

Bad analogy

[donscarletti]

The emporer had force powers that allowed him to control weak minds and shoot lightning from his fingertips. Microsoft has money and a bunch of software that works sorta, most of the time, in some ways, if you don't try to do something important with it. I guess they both have covert control over the senate, but if MS was designing the death star, the rebel alliance wouldn't have needed to fly through the exhaust tunnel, or hit a thermal vent the size of a "womp rat" because the reactor would have been put on the outside to remain compatible with deathstar 98 and to allow a certain class of star destroyer to dock that hadn't been used for ten years.

No question?

[dj245]

Ok here's a tip I got from my karate instructor, when someone's spoiling for a fight and are clearly about to start flailing, ask them a question, something dumb, irrelevant and obscure. When they take their eyes off you to think about it (and yup, people do exactly that when they're thinking, one of the reasons mobile phones are so dangerous in cars) you kick them in the balls and run for it.

All that leadup in your story and you didn't give us a good question? I was severely disappointed.
"What is the weight of an unladen swallow?" If they ask african or european, just fight them, they're a wimp.

Re:Bad analogy

[CrazyJim1]

I thought IBM designed the DeathStar, to which I proudly own 2, one of which has data loss, but works.

Re:I resent (rather than resemle) that

[Toby_Tyke]

Are paragraphs a tool of communism as well?

Re:I'm not following the question

[pembo13]

Well technically only one side needs to change for interoperation, so I guess that they would just prefer it be the OSS side.

Re:Don't trust Mundie

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. I can't believe I read that entire thread. One of you is an idiot, and one of you is pessimistic. One of you probably works for Microsoft, and one of you is probably an anti-MS zealot. You guys both fucking FAIL.

Re:At the risk of sounding like Fark

[ThePengwin]

Good good. let the hate flow through you....

Please, please, please

[Aceticon]

When refering to pulling something out of somebody's ass, stick with immaterial things like ideas, numbers, statistics and such

Posts about people pulling material things out of their asses, such as olive branches, baseball bats, cars, factories, bridges, PR representatives and lawyers have the nasty effect on some of of us of, even if only for a second, making our imagination conjure images worse than goatse ...

Please don't.