Microsoft bashing?

No fortunately, they (Bill Hilt and his colleagues from Microsoft) are making it easy enough for us not having to motivate or substantiate our antipathy for MS. They are doing it all by themselves!

This morning I came across this excellent article (Microsoft's open-source rhetoric remains dangerously inconsistent written by Ryan Paul on the ars technica website) and apart from scratching my head, trying to figure out how they actually want/plan to be involved with Open Source. Bill comes out with quite some contradictory statements in his interview with InformationWeek (Microsoft's Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy ~ what strategy one wonders....).

Ach, I guess nothing new here :-)

Seen as it's Friday (or if you're in the US, you're probably on leave already), you may be looking for some additional reading, then I can recommend heading straight to the discussion pages on this article.

Finally, I want to wish our US readers a happy thanksgiving, and the rest of you a good week-end.