Submission + - Microsoft to Assist Mozilla Foundation
Toreo asesino writes: Microsoft has offered developer assistance to Mozilla to ensure both the Firefox browser and Thunderbird email-client run under the pending Windows Vista. This was announced by Sam Ramji, director at the 'Open Source Software Lab' in Microsoft, on Google Groups
From the posting: "I am the Director of the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, and I'm writing to see if you are open to some 1:1 support in getting Firefox and Thunderbird to run on Vista.
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In the past the company has only invited commercial software developers to these labs. I'm committed to evolving our thinking beyond commercial companies to include open source projects, so I went to the non-trivial effort of getting slots for non-commercial open source projects."
Is Microsoft finally beginning to play nice with open-source or are there ulterior motives at work here?
From the posting: "I am the Director of the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, and I'm writing to see if you are open to some 1:1 support in getting Firefox and Thunderbird to run on Vista.
...
In the past the company has only invited commercial software developers to these labs. I'm committed to evolving our thinking beyond commercial companies to include open source projects, so I went to the non-trivial effort of getting slots for non-commercial open source projects."
Is Microsoft finally beginning to play nice with open-source or are there ulterior motives at work here?
