Nice Microsoft

Posted Mar 30, 2009 2:23 UTC (Mon) by hozelda (guest, #19341)
In reply to: Nice Microsoft by man_ls
Parent article: Microsoft: Judge us by our deeds on open source (The Register)

They can adjust their third-party interface implementations on the fly to suit their strategies.

PHP leadership would help themselves more by not helping out Microsoft.

When enough interesting things run exclusively (preferably) or significantly better on Linux, using protocols Microsoft has neglected, customers will more easily lose their blind devotion and patience with Microsoft and truly bake Linux into their future plans. First step being to stop buying into Microsoft's "latest and greatest", resulting in a serious hit to Microsoft revenues.

Customers have already started making serious preparations to alternatives. Can Microsoft embrace FOSS enough to turn back the tide?