Comments on: Microsoft and Free/Open Source Software http://techrights.org/2012/04/13/msft-foss-disinformation/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2012/04/13/msft-foss-disinformation/comment-page-1/#comment-132841 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:42:07 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=59709#comment-132841 It might be handy to name the latest PR from Microsoft and more response to it (as it was brought up in IRC):

Why Microsoft’s New Open Source Company?
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/04/why-microsofts-new-open-source-division/index.htm

Announcing one more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities – Interoperability @ Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/12/announcing-one-more-way-microsoft-will-engage-with-the-open-source-and-standards-communities.aspx

Microsoft Launches a Subsidiary for Open-Source Efforts
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/04/12/meet-microsoft-open-technologies-inc-the-new-open-source-subsidiary-for-microsoft/

This seems to have also been promoted by Microsoft circles like Todd Bishop. Simon’s take (the first one above) is worth a read.

Microsoft continues to obfuscate, hijack, confuse. It also helps spread software patents and blobs in FOSS, making them “acceptable”.

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