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| DATE | 2005-06-15 |
| FROM | swd
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Man, what do you make of this?
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My point exactly! If folks are going to try/buy LINUX, MS might as well get
the business.
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:29 pm, you wrote:
> never happen, they would have to release the source or they couldnt call
> it linux
>
> swd wrote:
> >No doubt MS has/is considering their own LINUX distibution.
> >"Windows(R) LINUX"? "Longhorn LINUX"?
> >
> >On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:28 am, Inker, Evan wrote:
> >>Now, I really feel sick...
> >>Thank You Ruben...
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Evan
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Ruben Safir [mailto:ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> >>Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:09 AM
> >>To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
> >>Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Man, what do you make of this?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Click Here
> >>
> >>Click Here
> >>
> >>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.(r)
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
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