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| DATE | 2005-06-15 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | RE: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Man, what do you make of this?
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Now, I really feel sick...
Thank You Ruben...
Regards,
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruben Safir [mailto:ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:09 AM
To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Man, what do you make of this?
Microsoft has recruited the father of a popular Linux distribution, under a
continuing mission to further understand - some would argue "extinguish" -
the open source operating system.
Daniel Robbins, founder and chief architect of the Gentoo distribution, is
moving to Redmond to help Microsoft "understand open source and
community-based projects" according to OSNews.
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Robbins' recruitment comes as Microsoft makes increasingly friendly noises
towards Linux. According to reports, Red Hat chief executive and prez
Matthew Szulik has been courted by Microsoft and even joined chief software
architect Bill Gates for lunch at an exclusive New York eaterie earlier this
year.
Linux fans will likely suspect the latest moves are another example of what
critics say is Microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy.
In this case, that could mean taking elements from Linux and open source
that help advance the Windows architecture and ecosystem of developers,
rather than doing something radical like build a version of Microsoft Office
for, say, Red Hat.
Robbins, who actually left Gentoo in 2004, certainly brings the benefit of
his experience in software management, which could support Microsoft's
Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) strategy for autonomic computing and
self-managing systems. Gentoo uses a software distribution system called
Portage that updates the distribution via a simple command and combined
"Portage tree" that is capable of creating and installing latest Gentoo
packages.
Gentoo will also build customized packages to fit users' specifications,
optimized for hardware and requested features. Gentoo, which describes
itself as a "metadistribtion" for PCs, games and embedded systems, runs on
x86, AMD64, PowerPC, UltraSparc, Alpha and MIPS processors.
Interestingly, the recruitment of Robbins follows last year's release by
Microsoft of the WiX command line tools for installation of Windows from XML
packages to the community. WiX is now reportedly being used in MySQL 4.1 to
generate binaries for deployment of the open source database to Windows.
Microsoft also last year released its FlexWiki and Windows Template Library
(WTL) to SourceForge.(r)
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