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| DATE | 2005-06-15 |
| FROM | swd
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Man, what do you make of this?
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No doubt MS has/is considering their own LINUX distibution.
"Windows(R) LINUX"? "Longhorn LINUX"?
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:28 am, Inker, Evan wrote:
> 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.
>
> Click Here
>
> Click Here
>
> 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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>
>
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