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| DATE | 2005-06-15 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Man, what do you make of this?
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Thats exactly what you think it is and what the article says.
Embrace and extinguish.
The article lacks any passion about the criticality of what ms is doing.
Steve M
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> Microsoft has recruited the father of a popular Linux distribution,
> under a continuing mission to further understand - some would argue
> "extinguish" - the open source operating system.
>
> Daniel Robbins, founder and chief architect of the Gentoo distribution,
> is moving to Redmond to help Microsoft "understand open source and
> community-based projects" according to OSNews.
>
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> Robbins' recruitment comes as Microsoft makes increasingly friendly
> noises towards Linux. According to reports, Red Hat chief executive and
> prez Matthew Szulik has been courted by Microsoft and even joined chief
> software architect Bill Gates for lunch at an exclusive New York eaterie
> earlier this year.
>
> Linux fans will likely suspect the latest moves are another example of
> what critics say is Microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy.
>
> In this case, that could mean taking elements from Linux and open source
> that help advance the Windows architecture and ecosystem of developers,
> rather than doing something radical like build a version of Microsoft
> Office for, say, Red Hat.
>
> Robbins, who actually left Gentoo in 2004, certainly brings the benefit
> of his experience in software management, which could support
> Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) strategy for autonomic
> computing and self-managing systems. Gentoo uses a software distribution
> system called Portage that updates the distribution via a simple command
> and combined "Portage tree" that is capable of creating and installing
> latest Gentoo packages.
>
> Gentoo will also build customized packages to fit users' specifications,
> optimized for hardware and requested features. Gentoo, which describes
> itself as a "metadistribtion" for PCs, games and embedded systems, runs
> on x86, AMD64, PowerPC, UltraSparc, Alpha and MIPS processors.
>
> Interestingly, the recruitment of Robbins follows last year's release by
> Microsoft of the WiX command line tools for installation of Windows from
> XML packages to the community. WiX is now reportedly being used in MySQL
> 4.1 to generate binaries for deployment of the open source database to
> Windows. Microsoft also last year released its FlexWiki and Windows
> Template Library (WTL) to SourceForge.®
>
>
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