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Microsoft Open Source Strategy is Upside Down.

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Warnings:

* This article represents my point of view. You may think whatever you want.
* My native language it is not English.

Last April (April-29-2010) there was a local event in Ecuador organized by AESoft, the Ecuadorian Software association. This event was names “Integrated Technologies” and was sponsored by Microsoft, CodePlex, Port25 and The Apache Foundation.

On this conference Microsoft sent a message saying that they are Open Source friendly and they support Open Source development. I saw this even as a Microsoft response of the growing “Free Software” (as in Freedom) movement here in Ecuador. So Microsoft tried to convince the audience that they care about Open Source and there are a lot of OSS software they promote.

Read more at Martin Iturbide

Uncategorized August 26th 2010

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