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:Microsoft Director Out to 'Debunk Mythology Around Open Source'
Microsoft Director Out to 'Debunk Mythology Around Open Source'
May 13, 2007, 12 :00 UTC (30 Talkback[s]) (11485 reads)
(Other stories by Don Sambandaraksa)

"'The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today.' Controversial statements from the head of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf.

"Speaking on the last leg of a tour of Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, Bill Hilf, more formally known as Microsoft's platform strategy director, was in the region to 'be descriptive and intelligent in giving people an understanding of open source and debunk a lot of the mythology around open source...'"

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There is big commercial [firms] like IBM ...   Bushisms   
kelaklub
May 13, 2007, 12:17:11  
The overwhelming majority of _PCs_ (not ...   An important addition.   
Rainer Weikusat
May 13, 2007, 12:29:13  
Wake me up when Microsoft people start s ...   Yawn   
Tony OBryan
May 13, 2007, 12:29:56  
After that Ghandi system used to underst ...   Denial, anger, acceptance   
Anonymous
May 13, 2007, 12:40:41  
Mr. Hilf seems to not know the differenc ...   Free vs. OSS   
Chris Bryant
May 13, 2007, 12:44:52  
There is redhat and there is novell. Fro ...   He is correct, really   
v m
May 13, 2007, 13:07:04  
> Wake me up when Microsoft people start ...   Re: Yawn   
Paul Hayes
May 13, 2007, 14:03:43  
Interesting title and I think it has all ...   Head of Microsoft's Linux Labs   
Sid Boyce
May 13, 2007, 14:16:19  
67 percent of the world's servers ru ...   "67 percent of the world's servers"   
Hen
May 13, 2007, 15:13:08  
We're not all cheapskates who just w ...   This guy doesn't know the first thing   
Thomas Allen
May 13, 2007, 15:32:41  
Or does someone need to send him a dicti ...   Was it an error in translation?   
Brandioch Conner
May 13, 2007, 16:02:23  
Remember when you never heard a peep fro ...   Whistling in the dark?   
geoff lane
May 13, 2007, 16:07:04  
Create a problem to force a standard? S ...   Standards?   
Jeff Davis
May 13, 2007, 17:58:39  
As long as there is windoze, there will ...   A village is missing it's idiot.   
corktowner
May 13, 2007, 20:22:22  
>>> Remember when you never heard a peep ...   Re: Whistling in the dark?   
SM
May 13, 2007, 21:02:33  
"The Free Software movement is BOOMING. ...   minor edits and it's better   
thompsco
May 13, 2007, 21:25:32  
What does that mean? It means that Linux ...   RED ALERT: We seem to have reverted from Ghandi Co   
Victor R. Rivarola S.
May 13, 2007, 22:34:58  
Bill Hilf resembles Ballmer and sounds l ...   A Ballmer Clone or Clown?   
Roni M. Oliva
May 13, 2007, 22:57:02  
Microsoft tried the, "Linux is developed ...   Re: Was it an error in translation?   
Tony OBryan
May 13, 2007, 23:06:07  
MS has one again shown us how dangerous ...   Dangerous company   
philc
May 14, 2007, 00:02:05  
This Microsnot's linux guy probably ...   Moron   
Chuck
May 14, 2007, 01:48:38  
...but the other half doesn't.Bill H ...   90% of the world uses free software...   
sc
May 14, 2007, 03:52:18  
> 67 percent of the world's servers ...   Re: "67 percent of the world's servers"   
Jude Nelson
May 14, 2007, 04:34:26  
> Mr. Hilf seems to not know the differe ...   Re: Free vs. OSS   
blackhole
May 14, 2007, 05:04:52  
Do you realize that "Hilfe" in German me ...   Symptomatic name choice.   
M. Miyojim
May 14, 2007, 06:43:44  
Excellent demonstration how it doesn&#39 ...   Micro$oft   
lawrence
May 14, 2007, 06:53:24  
....Spotting a wolf in sheep's cloth ...   Re: Head of Microsoft's Linux Labs   
Rob Sixpack
May 14, 2007, 13:19:37  
There is kernel.org, sourceforge.org, ww ...   He is not correct, really.   
Robert Pogson
May 14, 2007, 14:24:13  
Netcraft.com monitors servers. Their sta ...   see Netcraft.com   
Robert Pogson
May 14, 2007, 14:31:37  
The Free Software movement is dead. Linu ...   Linus has got a job ? No way ?   
Dag Wieers
May 14, 2007, 17:45:32  
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