Microsoft starts open source subsidiary:

[Kalvan]

You'll find all the gory details in Tom's Hardware:

And in other related news: Up is Down, Truth is False, Peace is War, and Ignorance is Strength! This message brought to you by the Ministry of Truth, who reminds you that Big Brother is Watching You!

[Spartak]

Originally Posted by Kalvan

You'll find all the gory details in Tom's Hardware:

And in other related news: Up is Down, Truth is False, Peace is War, and Ignorance is Strength! This message brought to you by the Ministry of Truth, who reminds you that Big Brother is Watching You!

M$ starts open source is like
Hitler was a zionist or
Martin Luther King founded Ku Klux Klan or
Politicians stop lying or
Pope is an atheist

[Bitey]

MS has been dabbling for while (even if the say OS is evil and comunist)

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx

http://codeplex.codeplex.com/

[vain]

Originally Posted by Bitey

MS has been dabbling for while (even if the say OS is evil and comunist)

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx

http://codeplex.codeplex.com/

They've been dabbing it pretty well...

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Or maybe it's with this...

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Or possibly this?

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What better way to go about open-source than to be the conduit between the programmers and consumers, monitoring both. They're missing the whole point of open-source and what it's supposed to be.