Microsoft Attempts to Quash OSS Recommendations

An anonymous reader writes "Inside Higher Ed has a story detailing Microsoft's attempt to alter a report created by the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Gerri Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public Sector division, complained about recommendations in the report to look into 'open source' and 'open content' at higher education institutions across the country. Elliott, who is on the voting committee, waited until the last minute and tried to have the report changed after a public vote. Although she does have a point that 'open source' is a development model, it still has collaboration at its heart. Can Microsoft argue against 'open' and win?"

And...

[GillBates0]

...out flies a chair out of the open Window.

Re:[OT] Google unreachable??

[Anonymous Coward]

Its fine. And your retarted.

It's fine. And you're retarded.

There. All better.

Re:MS up to its dirty tricks again.

[soft_guy]

Frankly, I'm surprised she didn't object to 'open learning', too.

Or just "learning"...

Re:Can they argue against 'open'

[megaditto]

You know, FY2005 $12,600,000,000 in profits can go a long way.

So yes, they could win. Considering what they could do having that kind of cash at their disposal, it is just amazing at how nice they play.

tinfoil time: I am told one could arrange a hit for about 10k... which means MS could 'take care' of some 1,260,000 OSS developers.

translation

[WeAreAllDoomed]

'Later that morning, [Gerri] Elliott [of Microsoft] gave in, writing: "I support Jim's paragraph as well."'

should read:

'Later that morning, [Gerri] Elliott [of Microsoft] gave in, writing: "I will back down on this now, since it's more damaging to Microsoft to awaken the slumbering Higher Ed sector with a controversy than to let this go into a report that few decision-makers will pay attention to anyway."'

MS is the best.

[rice_burners_suck]

Linux cannot do anything once it boots up. It just says: login. Whatever you type, it says: password. Then whatever you type, it just goes back to saying login again.

Windows is much better. When it starts up, you get glossy graphics with beautiful windows. The start menu is just one click away. It's so easy to use. Not like this login/password nonsense of Linux. In fact, any user can go up to your Windows computer and do whatever he wants.