:internetnews.com: Microsoft's Open Source Olive Branch
internetnews.com: Microsoft's Open Source Olive Branch Apr 7, 2006, 14 :15 UTC (18 Talkback[s]) (10398 reads) (Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)
"It seems kind of strange to have Microsoft, long considered the open source 'enemy,' to deliver a keynote at a conference about Linux, but that's exactly what happened in Boston today.
"Microsoft Platform Technology Strategy Director Bill Hilf delivered a keynote on interoperability between Windows and Linux and discussed the maturation of the debate between the two operating systems.
"He also detailed Microsoft's own test efforts in its Open Source Software Lab and officially announced the launch of Port 25, the communications and blogging site that gives some additional character and personality to those efforts..."