Im sure many of you saw this, but in light of recent disussion I fount it eyebrow raising.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Microsoft Wants Sit-Down With OSS Advocates � � � � � � � � � � � �| | � from the pigs-fly-hell-freezes-duke-nukem-releases dept. � � � � | | � posted by Zonk on Friday April 29, @19:29 (Microsoft) � � � � � �| | � http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/29/221235 � � � � | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ [0]bonch writes "Microsoft is [1]reaching out to the OSS community and wanting a sit-down to discuss how to better to interoperate with them. At a conference sponsored by the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) in Cambridge, Md., Microsoft's Brad Smith extended an olive branch to its competitors, including the OSS community. 'We're going to have to figure out how to build some bridges between the various parts of our industry,' he said. Eric Raymond responds, saying the first steps Microsoft could do are to open their file formats and support open standards." Discuss this story at: � � http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/04/29/221235 Links: � � 0. http://bonchslackersguildcom/ � � 1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1791085,00.asp _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
