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Keep Your Eyes Open

[ Thanks to e5rebel
for this link. ]

“One of the unexpected benefits of Microsoft’s desire to get
some hot openness-juice is that in its effort to appear open it is
revealing far more of its internal thought processes. Here’s a
fascinating document coming out of that–actually a job
advertisement for the post of Senior Marketing Manager-Open Source
Community.

“Alongside the usual euphemisms–‘Microsoft is committed to the
long-term growth of open source. This includes technical
collaborations, business partnerships, industry participation–and
community outreach’: that would be embrace, extend, extinguish–it
includes the following passage…”


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