Software Wars – Microsoft versus the World

Posted on 09 April 2008

Software Wars

The 451 Group’s Raven Zachary recently used this slide at an address in Redmond during Microsoft Open Source Day. It’s an illustration that portrays Microsoft versus the rest of the world done by Steven Hilton. Mario Madden from Microsoft’s Port 25 has a nice riff on the the fact that for Microsoft to be taken seriously in the open source community and play by the rules. Such as operating transparently. He acknowledges that this is how many people perceive Microsoft and does a nice job speaking to how Microsoft is trying to be more transparent in their dealings. Of course big ships turn slowly …

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Mark R. HinkleHello, my name is Mark Hinkle and I am technology enthusiast and executive for Zenoss Inc. the maker of the open source monitoring software, Zenoss Core. This is my personal blog and does not reflect the opinions of my employer. I am also on the advisory boards for open source collaboration software maker, MindTouch and SourceForge, the world's largest repository of open source software.  If you want to find out more you can read my bio

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