Microsoft Conflicted about Contributing to Samba

kripkenstein writes: "Ben Galbraith reports from a recent talk by Sam Ramji, in charge of Open Source Technical Strategy at Microsoft. Ramji is quoted as saying,

"Would I like to contribute to Samba? You bet. Am I constrained by the fact [Jeremy Allision] testified against us in the EU and the general politics between Steve [Ballmer] and Jeremy [Allison]? Yes. My hands are tied. That sucks.

(Jeremy Allison is part of the Samba project.) Ramji's approach to the connection between Microsoft and FOSS seems to by crystallized by quotes such as these:

If someone upgrades to Vista because they hear that Firefox runs better on Vista than on WinXP, I'm happy with that.
[...]
In 1995, Microsoft was the company that missed the Internet. In 2005, I don't think you could say that. [In 2005 it] was the company that missed open-source. In 2015, I don't think you're going to be able to say that.

So, by 2015, will FOSS have been Embraced and Extended by Microsoft?"