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Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft (InfoWorld)

[Posted March 13, 2008 by cook]

InfoWorld presents an interview with the Linux Foundation's executive director Jim Zemlin. "InfoWorld: So are Microsoft's days as the dominant provider of desktop and server and maybe even handheld operating systems numbered? Zemlin: Monopolies don't last forever, so I mean, I think they've got a long way to go. It's just natural over time that people aren't going to allow a single company to dominate the market. But the more important thing that Microsoft I think is grappling with now, and you saw that recently they've opened up their protocols and they're trying to be a more open company, is they realize that there's been a fundamental shift in how companies create innovative products and compete in the marketplace. And companies are doing that through open and mass collaboration."

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Bull.

Posted Mar 15, 2008 15:54 UTC (Sat) by deepfire (guest, #26138) [Link]

> But the more important thing that Microsoft I think is grappling with now,  and you
> saw that recently they've opened up their protocols and they're trying to be a more open 
> company, is they realize that there's been a fundamental shift in how companies create
> innovative products and compete in the marketplace.

They have been forced to open things in the EU, he is doing them a courtesy.