ONE of the best examples of Microsoft hypnosis these days is Vista 8. The Microsoft boosters keep raving about it, as if it's actually "coming real soon now".
“Likewise pretends to be an open source company, but it actually sells proprietary software with Microsoft patents; it's dressed up as "open source" using the "open core" trick.”Meanwhile we have companies with Microsoft roots such as Likewise. Likewise pretends to be an open source company, but it actually sells proprietary software with Microsoft patents; it's dressed up as "open source" using the "open core" trick [1, 2, 3, 4]. It's not the only company with Microsoft roots that uses this trick and it currently tries to 'infect' Ubuntu with those Microsoft software patents.
It ought to be added that based on this new press release, CollabNet repeats some footsteps of Geeknet, which got filled with some former Microsoft employees [1, 2] and then became more welcoming towards proprietary software such as .NET. From the first paragraph of this press release:
CollabNet€®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, today announced that it has hired Bert Huijben, a leading committer of the Apache Subversion€® open source project and the lead committer for AnkhSVN, the premier integration of Subversion and Microsoft€® Visual Studio€®. Huijben plays a key role in the Subversion project, as he brings much needed expertise and focus on Windows. He is also the founder of the SharpSVN open source project, which provides .NET bindings for Subversion. More information about CollabNet and Subversion is available at http://www.open.collab.net/products/subversion/.
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft and technology provider Global Gateway Innovation Exchange launched Thursday an open-source management tool that developers can use to monitor multiple-platform projects.
--Robert Scoble, former Microsoft evangelist